Senior Software Engineer, Autonomous Metrics & Release

Torc Robotics; Blacksburg (VA); On-site; USD 160,800 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Torc Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Metrics for Release (MFR) team to turn business and system requirements into production-ready software that evaluates autonomy performance and supports release readiness.

This role collaborates across the MFR ecosystem to implement safety and performance metrics, build Python services on AWS, and scale telemetry processing for validation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/ENG or related field; 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Experience with AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS, Step Functions).
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines or backend systems.
• Ability to translate high-level requirements into working software.
• Experience debugging complex systems using logs, telemetry, and data.
• Strong problem-solving skills and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Translate SPI and system-level requirements into technical designs and production implementations.
• Build and maintain Python-based services and AWS data pipelines supporting metrics and validation workflows.
• Work with requirements, systems, and validation teams to ensure accurate metric implementation.
• Process and analyze vehicle telemetry and validation data to produce meaningful signals.
• Implement release validation logic tied to automated testing and evaluation pipelines.
• Debug and resolve issues across data pipelines, telemetry flows, and metric computation systems.
• Contribute to workflow orchestration and automation systems (Temporal or similar).
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.

Skills

Python

AWS

Data pipelines

Requirements translation

Debugging

Cross-functional work

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/ENG/Robotics

Tools

Temporal

Job description

Torc Robotics is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Metrics for Release (MFR) team to turn business and system requirements into production-ready software that evaluates autonomy performance and supports release readiness.

This role collaborates across the MFR ecosystem to implement safety and performance metrics, build Python services on AWS, and scale telemetry processing for validation.