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Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesC++DockerLinuxPython
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Define the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for the platform, including how we evolve from today's fleet to the next order-of-magnitude in scale, sensor count, and autonomy maturity.
- Own the future architecture of our Ubuntu/Yocto/Linux distributions tailored for real-time, safety-critical autonomous vehicle workloads, and make the build-vs-buy decisions that follow.
- Set the strategy for ROS 2 IPC middleware (Cyclone DDS, Fast DDS, Zenoh, etc.) across the fleet — including profile selection, QoS standards, and determinism budgets for multi-sensor data flows.
- Lead development of user-space drivers for LiDARs, cameras, radars, GNSS/INS, CAN, and other vehicle interfaces, and set the standards other engineers follow when adding new hardware.
- Own the platform's functional safety and security strategy end-to-end — secure boot, OTA update pipelines, CVE response, and alignment with ISO 26262 / SOTIF workflows as we mature toward production.
- Define the observability contract for the platform: what "healthy" looks like in the lab and in the field, and the SLIs/SLOs the autonomy and perception teams can build against.
- Collaborating with autonomy, perception, and controls leads to set cross-stack performance budgets (CPU, GPU, memory, bus bandwidth, end-to-end latency) and drive the cross-team work to hit them.
- Set standards for how the platform is built, tested, and released — CI/CD for OS images and driver packages, hardware-in-the-loop testing, release gates, and rollback strategy.
- Contribute to the platform team's technical hiring and calibration — own the interview rubric, grow senior engineers into tech leads, and raise the bar on code review and design review across the team.
- Represent AeroVect technically in relationships with silicon, sensor, and middleware vendors, and influence their roadmaps where it matters to us.
- Provide on-call escalation support for platform components during field trials and customer pilots, and use what you learn in the field to drive systemic fixes.
- Identify strategic technical debt and drive it down — not just within the platform, but stack-wide.
Requirements
What you’ll need- 10+ years of experience developing Linux-based embedded or robotics platforms.
- Built a platform from 0→1 at a robotics/AV company that scaled through at least one order of magnitude in fleet size.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technically across multiple teams without direct reports — aligning autonomy, perception, and hardware stakeholders on a shared platform direction.
- Demonstrated experience growing senior engineers and raising engineering standards (design review, code review, on-call practices, post-mortems).
- Expert-level C++ (≥C++17) and strong Python, with deep instincts for which language belongs where in a real-time system.
- Deep, first-hand experience shipping real-time, safety-critical systems — Avionics, AV/ADAS, or comparable domains — not just general embedded Linux.
- Deep knowledge of IPC middlewares and techniques on Linux/POSIX systems.
- Expert-level real-time performance tuning and profiling (perf, eBPF, ftrace/LTTng), and the judgment to know when to reach for each.
- Experience with Git, Docker/OCI containers, and the CI/CD patterns appropriate for OS images and signed artifacts.
- Fluency with the common buses and protocols of a sensor-heavy vehicle (USB, Ethernet/TSN, CAN, PCIe, SPI, I2C).
- Experience with functional safety workflows (ISO 26262, MISRA, SOTIF) or a credible path to owning that work for us.
- Experience with Nvidia Orin/Thor platforms and heterogeneous compute scheduling.
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Hard Skills & Tools
C++PythonLinuxYoctoROS 2real-time systemsperformance tuningprofilingIPC middlewarefunctional safety
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcross-team collaborationmentoringengineering standardsproblem-solvingcommunicationstrategic thinkingon-call supportinfluencingcalibration
Certifications
ISO 26262MISRASOTIF