Senior, Software Engineer - Autonomy Core Frameworks at Torc Robotics — Ann Arbor, USA | Base Career

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About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.

A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners.

Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.

Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet the Team

The Senior Autonomy Core Frameworks Software Engineer plays a critical role in architecting and advancing the foundational frameworks that underpin Torc's autonomous driving stack.

This role helps in owning technical direction for the software in core autonomy components, helping to raise the bar on code quality, and driving improvements across the autonomy software.

As a senior technical leader, you will collaborate closely with the Behavior and Perception teams within Autonomy to design robust, composable architectural patterns that serve as the foundation for safe, performant, reliable autonomous operation.

This position demands deep technical expertise in software architecture and autonomous vehicle fundamentals.

What You’ll Do

Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of core frameworks that serve as the foundation for Torc's autonomous driving stack, including state management, inter-component communication, abstraction layers, and common utilities used across all software systems.
Drive the technical direction for real-time C++ architectural components and patterns responsible for reliable system-wide data flow, component coordination, error handling, and operational observability.
Establish scalable architectural patterns and abstractions that enable autonomous driving capabilities while driving technical tradeoff discussions and long-term design decisions that shape the entire platform.
Collaborate across Behavior and Perception teams to keep integration boundaries clean and shared abstractions coherent.

Experience architecting, maintaining, and using robotics middleware's (E.g., ROS 2)
Deep expertise in distributed systems design, including consensus algorithms, state synchronization, event-driven architectures, deterministic replay, etc.
Familiarity with ISO 26262, SOTIF, ASPICE, or other safety-critical software development standards.
Experience with GitHub Actions and Jenkins
Experience with Bazel and Bazel-based build systems
Experience designing or building observability, logging, and monitoring systems for complex distributed systems.
Experience working with simulations for regression testing
Experience managing versioning and conversion of data schemas at scale

Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future.

Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused.

Torc offers:

A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
401K plan with a 6% employer match
Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
AD+D and Life Insurance

At Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.

Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several geographic markets.

Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Torc's total compensation package will also include our corporate bonus and stock option plan.

Dependent on the position offered, sign-on payments, relocation, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

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