Senior/Staff System Software Engineer — ADAS Vision Platform

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

Senior/Staff System Software Engineer — ADAS Vision Platform

Mountain View, California, United States

About Us

PhantomVision™ is Phantom AI's production computer vision system for ADAS: a multi-camera, real-time perception stack that ships on automotive ECUs running Linux, QNX, and INTEGRITY. Behind the perception algorithms sits the platform that makes them run — the real-time runtime, the sensor and data pipelines, the simulation and test infrastructure, and the interfaces to the vehicle. This role owns that platform.

You’ll work at the boundary where algorithms meet hardware, where recorded data meets live systems, and where a research idea becomes software that runs deterministically at 30 frames per second in a moving car.

What you'll do

• 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 giving up development speed
• Build and sharpen the team's AI-assisted engineering workflows — coding agents, AI-assisted code review, test generation — and set the standard for how they're used well

What you bring

• 6+ years building system software for real-time or embedded environments
• Expert-level C++ (and solid C), including debugging on real hardware under real-time constraints
• Deep grounding in operating systems and computer architecture: scheduling, memory, caches, IPC, and what they cost
• Hands-on ROS or ROS2 experience — designing nodes/components, defining messages, working with bag data
• Fluency in serialization and middleware (Protocol Buffers, DDS, ZeroMQ, or similar) and network programming over TCP/UDP/Ethernet
• Working practice with AI-assisted development tools as a normal part of how you build, debug, and test
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• Depth in an RTOS or safety-grade platform: QNX, RT Linux, or Green Hills INTEGRITY
• Experience across both ROS1 and ROS2 ecosystems, including bag formats (rosbag/rosbag2/MCAP) and DDS configuration
• DNN inference runtimes and accelerators: TensorRT, TIDL, CUDA, quantized inference, and their pre/post-processing pipelines
• Cloud-scale data or simulation pipelines: containers, orchestration, batch compute, CI at fleet-data volume
• Automotive communication protocols: CAN, automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP
• Time spent shipping software in an automotive, robotics, or autonomous-vehicle setting
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid Time Off
• FSA
• 401K

Equal Opportunity for Diversity & Inclusion

Phantom AI provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.