Software Engineer, Physical AI Platform & Robotics

Lyte; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible vacation and time-off policy

Collaborative, fast-paced environment

Job summary

Lyte is seeking a hands-on software engineer to make its LiDAR and camera perception systems work end-to-end on real robots and customer compute platforms. You will own the software path from sensor packets to calibrated, time-synchronized data inside a robotics stack, including drivers, SDKs, GPU-accelerated processing, calibration pipelines, and tooling.

You will collaborate with algorithm, hardware, silicon, and manufacturing teams, splitting time between building new capabilities and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience on sensor- or hardware-interfacing systems.
• Expert-level C++ (C++17+) and Python, with CMake and packaging.
• Hands-on experience with ROS 2 and Linux systems programming, including networking and multi-threaded paths.
• Knowledge of CUDA or GPU compute, and deploying on NVIDIA Jetson or similar.
• Experience building Docker-based development environments and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/Jenkins).
• Proven ability to take prototypes to maintained, tested components in fast-moving env.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain sensor drivers, ROS 2 packages, and SDK components delivering LiDAR and camera data to robotics stacks.
• Build GPU-accelerated processing for point-cloud filtering, calibration, and odometry in reusable C++ libraries with Python bindings.
• Own time synchronization and data-path correctness for high-bandwidth sensor streams and Ethernet interfaces.
• Design and maintain calibration, KPI, and end-of-line test pipelines for manufacturing and bring-up.
• Create tooling for recording, playback, and visualization of sensor data; manage developer platform images and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with hardware, algorithm, silicon, and manufacturing teams across time zones.

Skills

Modern C++

Python

ROS 2

Linux

CI/CD

GPU compute

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Robotics

Tools

Docker

GitLab CI

Jenkins

CUDA

Job description

Lyte is seeking a hands-on software engineer to make its LiDAR and camera perception systems work end-to-end on real robots and customer compute platforms. You will own the software path from sensor packets to calibrated, time-synchronized data inside a robotics stack, including drivers, SDKs, GPU-accelerated processing, calibration pipelines, and tooling.

You will collaborate with algorithm, hardware, silicon, and manufacturing teams, splitting time between building new capabilities and