Job Description
The role involves leading the development of scalable backend systems and APIs for autonomous vehicle fleet management, collaborating with cross-functional teams to build solutions that enable safe, efficient, and large-scale autonomous vehicle operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of scalable cloud backend services and APIs for fleet management and autonomous vehicle operations.
- Architect and build real-time and offline data pipelines to support fleet optimization and autonomy improvements.
- Design complex, high-availability systems from the ground up in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and operational stakeholders to deliver solutions that enhance fleet efficiency and safety.
- Mentor and grow engineering team members, ensuring technical excellence through code reviews and design discussions.
- Translate operational data and autonomy metrics into actionable insights via operator-facing tools and APIs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 8 years of industry experience in software development, with a proven track record of designing, building, and operating large-scale backend systems.
- Deep expertise in cloud backend development, including scalable web services, distributed systems, and modern API design.
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices such as AWS, Kubernetes, Elasticache, CI/CD, and monitoring alerting systems.
- Experience building large-scale gRPC services in Golang.
- Experience in a leadership role, including driving technical strategy, influencing architectural decisions, and mentoring senior engineers.
- Experience defining technical roadmaps and driving long-term strategic projects that span multiple engineering teams.
- Phenomenal communication skills, including the ability to write effective technical specifications, provide feedback, translate technical concepts into lay terms, and incorporate feedback.
- Ability to partner with Product Managers, Designers, Autonomy, and Operations Stakeholders to deliver solutions quickly, safely, and broadly.
- Experience designing and building scalable cloud backend services that power real-time and offline data flows for fleet optimization, autonomy improvement, and commercial operations.
- Experience developing and deploying robust, well-engineered solutions leveraging modern cloud technologies to build highly available, low-latency backend services, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Ability to translate complex operational data and autonomy metrics into actionable insights through scalable operator-facing tools and APIs.
- Strong collaboration skills with Software, Hardware, and Infrastructure engineering teams.
- Experience with safety and mission-critical applications (desirable).
- Experience in onboard C development for autonomous vehicles or other robotics (desirable).
- Experience in operations research or optimization algorithms (desirable).
- Experience in transportation, logistics, or other time-sensitive operations (desirable).
- Experience with fleet management solutions for Robots, Vehicles, or Aerial Drones (desirable).
- Experience with external customer-facing software, including production rollout with real customers (desirable).
Benefits & Perks
Base salary range: 212,000 - 340,000 USD
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Benefits (unspecified)
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