Senior Real-Time System Software Engineer – ADAS Vision

Phantom AI; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid Time Off

FSA

401K

Job summary

Phantom AI in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Senior/Staff System Software Engineer for its ADAS Vision Platform. You’ll own the runtime infrastructure, ensure deterministic dataflow, and enable portability from automotive ECUs to developer desks while handling large drive data volumes.

You’ll work at the boundary of algorithms and hardware, delivering reliable, high‑performance software at real‑time speeds for automotive deployments and safety compliance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building system software for real-time or embedded environments.
• Expert-level C++ (and solid C) with debugging on real hardware under real-time constraints.
• Deep grounding in operating systems and computer architecture: scheduling, memory, caches, IPC.
• Hands-on ROS or ROS2 experience—designing nodes/components and messages.

Responsibilities

• Own the runtime infrastructure of a real-time vision system: task orchestration, inter-process messaging, sensor ingestion, and deterministic data flow under hard latency budgets
• Build the infrastructure that lets the vision stack run anywhere — on target ECUs, on a developer's desk, and at scale against large volumes of recorded drive data
• Design and evolve data replay, simulation, and regression-testing systems that turn field recordings into fast, repeatable development loops
• Keep the stack portable and efficient across compute platforms and DNN inference runtimes, from datacenter GPUs to automotive SoCs
• Design the real-time communication paths that connect the vision system to vehicle platforms and external consumers
• Engineer to automotive safety and security standards (ISO 26262, ISO 21434) without slowing development
• Build AI-assisted engineering workflows — coding agents, AI-assisted code review, test generation — and set the standard for how they're used

Skills

C++ expert

Real-time/embedded

ROS/ROS2

Networking

Serialization (Protobuf/DDS/ZeroMQ)

AI-assisted development tools

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Protocol Buffers

DDS

ZeroMQ

TensorRT/CUDA

Linux/QNX/INTEGRITY RTOS

Job description

Phantom AI in Mountain View, CA, seeks a Senior/Staff System Software Engineer for its ADAS Vision Platform. You’ll own the runtime infrastructure, ensure deterministic dataflow, and enable portability from automotive ECUs to developer desks while handling large drive data volumes.

You’ll work at the boundary of algorithms and hardware, delivering reliable, high‑performance software at real‑time speeds for automotive deployments and safety compliance.