Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Controls — Rail Tech

Collide Capital LLC; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Unlimited vacation

Equity

Parental leave

Job summary

Intramotev in St. Louis, MO is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Controls to own the control system for self-propelled railcars and vehicles.

You will design server-side trip planning, route dispatch, and real-time ground-vehicle messaging, while ensuring safety and production-quality code across multiple modules. You will mentor the team, set testing standards, and collaborate with Perception and Embedded teams to advance autonomy and interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience shipping production software.
• A track record of designing systems other engineers build on — including networked ground and vehicle components — with mentorship.
• Command of data structures, algorithms, and maintainable system design, with depth in Python, C, C++, Rust, Go, or MATLAB/Simulink.
• Testing discipline — unit and integration coverage with Git in a collaborative Linux workflow; fluent with AI-assisted development tools.
• Willingness to expand into new technical areas; comfortable working in a team as an individual contributor.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.
• U.S. Person (immigration/work visa sponsorship will not be provided).

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of the vehicle-control system across ground and vehicle, define interfaces and delivery guarantees.
• Build and maintain server-side modules for trip planning and route dispatch; ensure production-quality code.
• Design and implement ground-to-vehicle real-time messaging with delivery guarantees.
• Own data describing tracks and vehicles, including versioning and integrity checks.
• Set testing bar: unit/integration tests; field testing and integration on real rail vehicles.
• Debug production issues on fielded vehicles and feed learnings back into tests and architecture.
• Mentor engineers via design/code reviews and task decomposition.
• Collaborate with Perception on autonomous capabilities and with Embedded/Applications teams.

Skills

5+ years production software

System design & mentorship

Programming languages (Python, C, C++,

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Tools

Git

Docker

CI/CD

Redis

ZeroMQ

Job description

Intramotev in St. Louis, MO is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Controls to own the control system for self-propelled railcars and vehicles.

You will design server-side trip planning, route dispatch, and real-time ground-vehicle messaging, while ensuring safety and production-quality code across multiple modules. You will mentor the team, set testing standards, and collaborate with Perception and Embedded teams to advance autonomy and interfaces.