Senior C++ Engineer, Autonomy Platform — Real-Time, Onsite

Gatik; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Gatik, an autonomous freight company, seeks Senior/Staff Software Engineers with strong C++ fundamentals to build scalable, high-performance perception and autonomy software. You will partner with research and software teams to productionize, integrate and test features for our autonomous fleet.

This onsite role is based in Santa Clara, CA, and requires mentoring peers, optimizing pipelines and ensuring reliable, secure deployment across our fleet.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in production software development.
• Expert in C++ with real-time, high-performance software experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, integrate and support real-time, mission-critical software for the autonomy stack.
• Build and evolve platform capabilities for perception and autonomy algorithms.
• Collaborate with research to productionize algorithms and prototypes.
• Architect and solve integration challenges across sensors and compute platforms.
• Optimize real-time pipelines for latency and memory usage.
• Mentor researchers and developers for efficient compute usage.
• Develop validation, benchmarking, debugging and performance tools.
• Coordinate with Infrastructure and DevOps for scalable delivery.
• Conduct code and design reviews to strengthen SDLC practices.

Skills

C++

RT systems

Multithreading

Memory management

Debugging

Production deployment

Software architecture

Performance optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/ENG

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Conan

CMake

Bazel

ROS2

PyTorch

Job description

Gatik, an autonomous freight company, seeks Senior/Staff Software Engineers with strong C++ fundamentals to build scalable, high-performance perception and autonomy software. You will partner with research and software teams to productionize, integrate and test features for our autonomous fleet.

This onsite role is based in Santa Clara, CA, and requires mentoring peers, optimizing pipelines and ensuring reliable, secure deployment across our fleet.