Software Engineer, C++ (Onboard Platform)

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Software Engineer, C++ (Onboard Platform) in USA new

Applied Intuition
Full time
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USA
11/04/2026
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Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities

Design the runtime architecture of the onboard stack, including process scheduling, communication, and failure degradation.
Develop and improve reliable, predictable real-time software for autonomous vehicles operating on public roads.
Trace failures from application symptoms through the kernel, hardware, and middleware, and implement fixes.
Design fault detection and escalation mechanisms, including commands for the vehicle to pull over safely.
Build measurement systems to evaluate stack performance and reliability.
Port the self-driving stack to new compute platforms and vehicles.
Set cross-functional technical direction with autonomy, perception, planning, controls, hardware, and safety teams.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
4+ years of experience shipping complex software in C++14 or later.
Strong system design and software engineering fundamentals.
Experience leading system design from design documentation through production.
Working knowledge of operating system internals, including scheduling, memory management, threading, and inter-process communication.
Experience debugging issues spanning application code, operating systems, and hardware.
Preferred experience with onboard application software in autonomy, ADAS, or robotics.
Preferred experience with real-time systems, an RTOS, or QNX.
Preferred experience with robotics middleware or shared-memory communication such as ROS 2 or DDS.
Preferred experience with profiling and tracing tools, vehicle hardware and CAN networks, mentoring software engineers, and Python.

Benefits

Full-time employees primarily work from an Applied Intuition office five days per week, with occasional remote-work flexibility.
Accessible and inclusive application and interview accommodations are available for disabled veterans and applicants with disabilities or medical conditions.

Salary: $125k - $222k/yr

Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, t...

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