Senior, Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Torc Robotics; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 161,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Torc Robotics in Ann Arbor, MI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Platform Engineering team to build internal platforms that accelerate software development and validation for autonomous vehicles worldwide.

You will design platform infrastructure, support on-call incident response, and mentor engineers while advancing reliability, scalability, and developer productivity through APIs, CI/CD, observability, and containerization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related technical field.
• 6+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills.
• Proficient in Python and modern OO languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform infrastructure for build, test, deployment, and release workflows.
• Provide on-call support and incident response for team-owned services.
• Support and troubleshoot internal customers.
• Evolve an internal multimodal test execution platform across hardware and simulation.
• Develop and operate shared platform services, including workflow orchestration and authentication.
• Drive engineering quality and reliability through best practices.

Skills

Software architecture

Python

Infrastructure-as-code

APIs design

CI/CD

Clouds/bare‑metal infra

Observability

Docker

Kubernetes

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Datadog

Temporal

AWS Step Functions

Airflow

Job description

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will build and evolve the internal platforms and services that empower engineers across the company to automate and accelerate software development, testing, and validation for autonomous vehicles worldwide.

Responsibilities:

• Design and construct platform infrastructure spanning build, test, deployment, and release workflows across software and hardware environments.

• Periodic on‑call shifts during business hours focused on incident response and operational support for team‑owned services.

• Provide support and troubleshooting to internal customers.

• Maintain and evolve an internal, multimodal test execution platform across target hardware and simulation, with integration into requirements tracking systems.

• Develop and operate shared platform services, including workflow orchestration, observability, remote development environments, and authentication infrastructure.

• Drive engineering quality through reference implementations, best practices, and continuous improvement of platform reliability and scalability.

• Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across design, implementation, and operations.

Competencies:

• Strong software architecture and system design skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Strong proficiency with Python or another modern object‑oriented programming language.

• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.

• Experience building intuitive, extensible, well‑documented APIs.

• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, tooling, and engineering workflows.

• Experience managing technical infrastructure across cloud‑based and bare‑metal environments.

• Experience with observability, telemetry, and monitoring platforms such as Datadog.

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong troubleshooting skills, including real‑time debugging and deep log‑based analysis.

• Experience with performance analysis, operational metrics, and system reliability practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

• 6 or more years of relevant industry experience.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with hardware‑in‑the‑loop test automation for embedded, robotics, or vehicle platforms.

• Experience with workflow orchestration engines such as Temporal, AWS Step Functions, Airflow, or similar technologies.

• Experience building or supporting developer productivity platforms such as remote development environments or virtual desktop infrastructure.

Hiring Range for Job Opening

US Pay Range

$160,800—$193,000 USD