Senior Software Engineer, Map Infrastructure Santa Clara, CA

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

Job summary

Gatik, headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Map Infrastructure. You’ll design and build pipelines turning fleet sensor data into accurate, versioned maps and deliver them to every truck and simulation run.

Collaborate with localization, autonomy, and operations to ship safe map updates. You’ll own storage, versioning, and tools that enable fast map creation, validation, and deployment, while advancing measurement, automation, and CI quality across map

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Robotics, Geomatics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant industry experience (or a Master’s degree and 3+ years).
• Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or C++, including modular, maintainable, well-tested systems.
• Experience building large-scale data pipelines and distributed processing on cloud infrastructure with Spark, Ray, Beam.

Responsibilities

• Build map creation pipelines processing lidar, camera, and GNSS/IMU data into high-definition maps.
• Speed up route onboarding via automation and tooling.
• Own map storage and versioning with clear schemas and data contracts.
• Deliver maps to vehicles with reliable packaging, distribution, and safe rollout.
• Detect and manage real-world map changes and propagate updates quickly.
• Make map quality measurable with automated validation checks for geometry, topology, and localization.
• Build map visualization, editing, and QA tools for engineers and operators.
• Connect maps to simulation and ML training pipelines.
• Raise engineering bar with clean interfaces, testing, and observability.

Skills

Python

C++

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Geospatial data

APIs & Protobuf

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Robotics or related field

Master's degree (optional)

Tools

Spark

Ray

Beam

PostGIS

GDAL

Shapely

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Map Infrastructure

Who we are

Gatik is in the business of autonomous freight, and that business is already on the road.

Every day, Gatik’s autonomous trucks move freight for Fortune 50 retailers, grocers and consumer brands across Texas, Arizona, Arkansas and Canada, connecting distribution centers and stores and keeping goods moving. At the heart of it all is the Gatik Driver™, our proprietary Level 4 autonomous driving system, powered by scalable, interpretable AI and engineered to deliver safe, reliable, high-frequency freight operations.

Gatik’s momentum is real. With more than $600 million in contracted revenue and $200 million raised in our August 2026 Series D round, Gatik has taken one of the toughest challenges in autonomous technology and turned it into a proven commercial business.

And the market is paying attention. In 2026, Gatik earned a place on Forbes' America’s Best Startup Employers list, and the Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. The Gatik Driver™ won an Edison Award for Advancements in Autonomous Driving, and Inc. named our Co-founder and Chief Engineer, Apeksha Kumavat, to its Female Founders 500 list.

There's a lot more road ahead, and some of the brightest, most driven minds in autonomous technology are building the next chapter at Gatik. We’re taking on hard engineering problems, pushing the limits of what’s possible and building on a commercial foundation that’s already proven itself in the real world with some of the biggest companies in the world, like PepsiCo and Loblaw. If you’re ambitious, love solving problems that matter and want to see your work make a real difference, you’ll find plenty to get excited about here.

About the Team

Maps are a foundation of Gatik’s autonomy stack, supporting localization, perception, prediction, planning, and simulation. The Map Infrastructure team builds the systems that turn fleet sensor data into accurate, versioned, validated maps and deliver them reliably to every truck and every simulation run. Because Gatik grows by launching new customer routes, how fast and safely we can map, validate, and deploy a new route directly shapes how fast the business scales.

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on Map Infrastructure, you’ll design and build the pipelines, storage, services, and tools behind Gatik’s maps, from raw sensor logs to the map data our trucks load on the road. You’ll work closely with localization, autonomy, simulation, and operations teams to make map creation faster, map quality measurable, and map updates safe to ship.

What You’ll Do

• Build map creation pipelines. Design and scale pipelines that process lidar, camera, and GNSS/IMU data from the fleet into high-definition maps, including alignment, semantic layer generation, and automated and human-in-the-loop labeling.
• Speed up route onboarding. Reduce the time and cost to map, validate, and deploy new customer routes and hubs through automation, better tooling, and clear process.
• Own map storage and versioning. Build the geospatial data platform that stores map data with versioning, provenance, and clear schemas and data contracts, so every truck and simulation run can trace exactly which map it used.
• Deliver maps to the vehicle. Build reliable, efficient services that package, compress, and distribute map updates to the fleet, with safe rollout, rollback, and compatibility guarantees for onboard software.
• Detect and manage map change. Build systems that use fleet data to detect real-world changes such as construction, lane changes, and new signage, and route them into fast, safe map updates.
• Make map quality measurable. Define and implement map quality metrics and automated validation checks for geometry, topology, semantics, and localization performance, and gate releases on them.
• Build tools people love. Develop map visualization, editing, review, and QA tools that make it fast for engineers and operators to inspect, correct, and approve map data.
• Connect maps to simulation and ML. Make map data easy to consume in simulation, scenario generation, and ML training pipelines, in partnership with the simulation and Scalable ML teams.
• Raise the engineering bar. Champion clean interfaces, testing, code review, observability, and fast, dependable CI across map systems, and help root-cause and prevent map-related incidents.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Geomatics, or a related field and 5+ years of relevant industry experience (or a Master’s degree and 3+ years).
• Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or C++, including designing modular, maintainable, well-tested systems in a shared codebase.
• Experience building large-scale data pipelines and distributed processing systems, using tools such as Spark, Ray, Beam, or similar, on cloud infrastructure.
• Experience working with geospatial data, including coordinate systems and projections, spatial indexing (such as S2 or H3), and geospatial databases or libraries (such as PostGIS, GDAL, or Shapely).
• Experience designing data storage, versioning, and serving systems with clear schemas and APIs (for example, Protobuf or similar).
• Clear communication and the ability to work effectively with autonomy, simulation, and operations teams.

Salary Range: $180,000 - $260,000

More about Gatik

Founded in 2017, Gatik has grown into a commercial force in autonomous freight, operating trucks daily in live customer networks across the United States and Canada. We’re headquartered in Santa Clara, California, but our impact is felt on the roads and in the supply chains that keep essential goods moving for some of the biggest companies in North America.

Our trucks do some of the most demanding work in freight, running high-frequency, time-sensitive routes between distribution centers and stores, where reliability matters every single day. For our customers, that means more capacity, better service and products arriving where they need to be, when they need to be there.

Behind it all is AI-first technology built from the ground up for autonomous trucking, capable of navigating highways and surface streets and tackling the complexity of real-world logistics at scale.

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At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment’s sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.

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