Staff Software Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA

Direct Hire/FTE

This position requires the ability to obtain a US Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Lead the Software design, development, integration, validation, documentation, and release for autonomous vehicles' user interfaces, communications, encryption, data management, for single and multi-vehicle operations.
• Contribute to autonomous vehicles software architectural decisions.
• Interact with Systems Engineering, product management, sales and customers to obtain and understand requirements and deliverables, and with QA to develop test strategies.
• Provide product support to software applications teams, field operations, and customers as needed.
• Present regular product development status and validation results.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in Engineering or Science with strong Computer Science fundamentals. Six (6) plus years experience preferred.
• Proven track record of designing, releasing, and supporting complex Software products for interfacing to and managing data and communications from Robotic systems or autonomous vehicles, including associated customer facing documentation.
• Working knowledge of cryptography, public key exchange, and modern crypto implementation.
• Demonstrated mastery of Java, Linux and related technologies; be prepared to explain examples of your prior work.
• Strong system architecture, design, debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with testing and deployment of applications to public facing servers in a production environment.
• Strong emphasis on quality from design to release, including unit tests and code reviews, collaboration with QA teams to develop and enhance test plans and system integration tests.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills; experience working with cross departmental groups including Quality, manufacturing, field support, sales engineering.
• Experience with an agile/scrum development style, use of continuous integration build tools such as Jenkins, Git and JIRA.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• C# and .NET technologies.
• Experience developing and deploying data delivery services.
• Experience with Glassfish or Tomcat servers, windows servers, SQL, Docker, web apps, distributed applications, data visualization, mapping.
• Knowledge of network communications.