Software Engineer - System Performance, Robot Software (AI)

TL;DR

Software Engineer - System Performance, Robot Software (AI): Responsible for the software that runs on our internal fleet of vehicles to enable autonomous driving and collect data for training new driving models with an accent on delivering a reliable, stable and flexible software stack to support on-road experimentation. Focus on investigating latency and performance bottlenecks across the entire software stack, instrumenting code with profiling tools and metrics to collect performance data and identify optimization opportunities.

Location: Must be based in Sunnyvale, California.

Company

hirify.global is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology, creating autonomy that propels the world forward with intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products designed for automakers.

What you will do

• Investigate latency and performance bottlenecks across the entire software stack.
• Instrument code with profiling tools and metrics to collect performance data and identify optimization opportunities.
• Integrate and evaluate new profiling and instrumentation tools to benchmark system performance and establish baselines.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to understand their performance pain points and prioritize optimization efforts based on impact.
• Optimize critical code paths and algorithms to improve runtime efficiency, reduce latency, and enhance overall system performance.

Requirements

• Proficiency with performance profiling tools and techniques for identifying and resolving system bottlenecks.
• Proven track record of methodical experiment evaluation.
• Strong technical background on OS scheduling, computer architecture (memory hierarchy, CPU caches, context switches, …), and thread synchronisation.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Nvidia performance tools such as NV NSight, NV Lumos and tegrastat.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana (logs, metrics, traces), Databricks, Datadog.
• Familiarity with QNX and Momentics is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.
• Committed to creating a diverse, fair and respectful culture that is inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives.
• Encouraged to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements listed above.