Senior Software Engineer – Autonomy Core Frameworks

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🚗 Michigan, Texas, +1 more states – Remote

🚗 Michigan – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $160.8k - $193k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Torc Robotics

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

🚘 Automotive

📦 Logistics

🚗 Transport

Automotive • Logistics • Transport

Torc Robotics is an innovative company focused on commercializing self-driving trucks for long-haul freight transportation. As an independent subsidiary of Daimler Truck, the company is developing autonomous technology, primarily focusing on the Freightliner Cascadia. Torc is committed to safe transportation, continuously improving its solutions through rigorous testing and integration of industry-leading sensors. It collaborates with fleet management companies to deploy real-world autonomous solutions, aiming to lead the industry in autonomous trucking.

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of core frameworks underpinning Torc's autonomous driving stack, including state management, inter-component communication, abstraction layers, and common utilities • Drive technical direction for real-time C++ architectural components and patterns supporting system-wide data flow, component coordination, error handling, and operational observability • Establish scalable architectural patterns and abstractions for autonomous driving capabilities and guide long-term platform design decisions • Collaborate with Behavior and Perception teams to maintain clean integration boundaries and coherent shared abstractions • Lead architecture, design, and code reviews and establish engineering standards for reliability, maintainability, testability, and scalability • Mentor software engineers through technical coaching, architectural guidance, and day-to-day collaboration • Champion validation, testing strategies, observability frameworks, and production-readiness practices • Perform root cause analysis of complex platform-level issues and drive improvements to reliability, performance, and resilience • Define and evolve simulation and validation frameworks for testing across operational scenarios and edge cases • Evaluate emerging architectural patterns, systems research, and advanced techniques • Communicate architectural concepts and technical vision across engineering, product, and leadership teams

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or Master's degree with 6+ years of professional experience, or demonstrated success designing and evolving complex production software platforms with ownership of architectural decisions • Deep experience with C++17 and recent standards • Comfort using Python to script and integrate systems • Experience across autonomous systems/robotics, distributed systems, or complex embedded environments using middleware with publish-subscribe communication patterns • Strong experience with testing, continuous integration, and build systems • Deep experience with systems-level software design, managing technical debt, refactoring large codebases, and evolving platforms while maintaining stability and performance • Experience mentoring engineers through technical leadership, architecture reviews, code reviews, and establishing scalable engineering standards • Strong mastery of modular/composable architecture, design patterns, concurrency, testing strategies, and long-term maintainability • Bonus: Experience with robotics middleware such as ROS 2 • Bonus: Expertise in distributed systems design, consensus algorithms, state synchronization, event-driven architectures, and deterministic replay • Bonus: Familiarity with ISO 26262, SOTIF, ASPICE, or other safety-critical software development standards • Bonus: Experience with GitHub Actions and Jenkins • Bonus: Experience with Bazel and Bazel-based build systems • Bonus: Experience designing observability, logging, and monitoring systems for complex distributed systems • Bonus: Experience with simulations for regression testing • Bonus: Experience managing versioning and conversion of data schemas at scale

🏖️ Benefits

• A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options • 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees • 401K plan with a 6% employer match • Flexibility in schedule • Generous paid vacation available immediately after start date • AD+D and Life Insurance • Potential sign-on payments, relocation, and other forms of compensation depending on the position • Medical, financial, and/or other benefits