Staff Platform Engineer - Real-Time Embedded

Point One Navigation Inc; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Point One Navigation in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Staff Platform Software Engineer to own the architecture of our FusionEngine across embedded and Linux targets in a hybrid in-office setting.

You will turn high-level goals into concrete designs and APIs, create robust test plans, and drive end-to-end delivery with minimal oversight while collaborating with hardware and HITL teams to ensure reliable, real-time performance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development, including real ownership of architecture for a significant system or product area.
• Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous goals into solid designs — architecture, APIs, test plans, schedules — and deliver against them with minimal oversight.
• Expert-level modern C++ (C++20 or later), with experience across more than one kind of platform (embedded + Linux, or device + server).
• Experience deploying cross-domain systems — integrating hardware and software into a working, reliable product, not just writing code for hardware someone else already brought up and deployed.
• Comfortable getting hands-on with real-time or hardware-adjacent debugging, even if not your primary specialty.
• Demonstrate responsible use of modern AI tooling to improve speed and thoroughness, while maintaining the quality of the code and product.
• Strong Python experience for tooling, automation, and scripting. - Experience designing and owning test/verification strategy for complex systems.
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and design of large parts of the FusionEngine system.
• Turn high-level goals into concrete designs: architecture, APIs, test plans, schedules.
• Drive designs end-to-end with minimal hand-holding once approach is agreed on.
• Make sound tradeoffs under real-world constraints — timing, reliability, maintainability, schedule.
• Raise the bar on other engineers’ designs and code.
• Install, wire, and manage hardware in vehicles and HITL test rigs; debug it when it breaks.
• Help design and maintain regression testing, HITL testing, and post-processing systems — locally managed, on remote-managed hardware, or in the cloud.

Skills

C++20

Python

Embedded systems

System architecture

Test planning

RTOS debugging

AI tooling

Real-time debugging

Education

BS/MS/PhD in CSE/EE

Job description

Point One Navigation in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Staff Platform Software Engineer to own the architecture of our FusionEngine across embedded and Linux targets in a hybrid in-office setting.

You will turn high-level goals into concrete designs and APIs, create robust test plans, and drive end-to-end delivery with minimal oversight while collaborating with hardware and HITL teams to ensure reliable, real-time performance.