Staff Principal Engineer, Vehicle Compute & Networking

Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd; Mountain View, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd is seeking a Staff/Principal Engineer to architect and lead the design of the vehicle compute and networking stack at the hardware/software interface.

You’ll own the technical roadmap, set engineering standards, and provide deep technical oversight across software, hardware, and systems teams. This hands-on leadership role requires you to stay at the bench for the hardest problems — Linux kernel tuning and multi-layer networking — while mentoring senior engineers and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, leading large-scale architecture at the hardware/software interface.
• Expert-level C++ for high-performance, thread-safe, memory-efficient Linux systems.
• 5+ years of system-level development: Linux networking stacks, performance profiling, and hardware bring-up.
• Deep command of networking protocols across the stack — low-level (CAN, UDP, TCP) and high-level (gRPC, RTP, HTTP).
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership across software, hardware, and systems teams, with a track record of shipping complex platforms.
• Strong systems-debugging instincts — reason across the boundary from application code to kernel, driver, and hardware behavior.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the design of the vehicle compute and networking stack, ensuring a modular, scalable interface between autonomy software and hardware platforms.
• Drive the technical roadmap for hardware health monitoring and fleet-wide performance optimization.
• Lead cross-functional integration of new sensors and embedded devices, and define standards for low-latency data interfaces.
• Establish engineering standards for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing and automated performance profiling.
• Provide technical oversight on complex system-level issues spanning Linux kernel tuning, high-performance C++, and multi-layer networking.

Skills

High-performance C++

Linux systems

System-level development

Networking protocols

Cross-functional leadership

Debugging across stack

Tools

Linux

Networking stacks

Job description

Vayavya Labs Pvt. Ltd is seeking a Staff/Principal Engineer to architect and lead the design of the vehicle compute and networking stack at the hardware/software interface.

You’ll own the technical roadmap, set engineering standards, and provide deep technical oversight across software, hardware, and systems teams. This hands-on leadership role requires you to stay at the bench for the hardest problems — Linux kernel tuning and multi-layer networking — while mentoring senior engineers and