Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering (Autonomous Vehicles)

Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Salary: $160,800–$193,000 USD per year

Company

Develops autonomous vehicle technology and the software platforms supporting its engineering operations.

What you will do

• Design and build platform infrastructure for software and hardware build, test, deployment, and release workflows.
• Maintain and evolve a multimodal test execution platform across target hardware and simulation, including requirements-tracking integrations.
• Develop and operate shared services for workflow orchestration, observability, remote development environments, and authentication.
• Provide internal customer support, troubleshooting, incident response, and periodic business-hours on-call coverage.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and engineering quality through reference implementations and best practices.
• Mentor engineers and raise technical standards across design, implementation, and operations.

Requirements

• 6+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills, with proficiency in Python or another modern object-oriented language.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, APIs, cloud and bare-metal infrastructure, containers, and orchestration.
• Experience with observability, telemetry, monitoring, performance analysis, troubleshooting, and reliability practices.

Nice to have

• Hardware-in-the-loop test automation for embedded, robotics, or vehicle platforms.
• Experience with Temporal, AWS Step Functions, Airflow, or similar workflow orchestration engines.
• Experience building or supporting remote development environments or virtual desktop infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Work includes collaboration with internal engineering customers across software and hardware environments.
• Periodic business-hours on-call shifts support team-owned services.
• Focus on continuous improvement, technical mentorship, and reliable platform operations.