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# Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Upstart
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $260,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Confluence, JIRA, C++ (Programming Language), CMake, DevOps, Memory Management, Linear Programming, Software Architecture, Systems Development Life Cycle, Software Engineering, Software Project Management, Software Systems, Systems Integration, Pytorch, Information Technology, Build Tools
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-staff-software-engineer-c-gatik-ai-6298190

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Robotics or in a related degree
 * Master's or PhD degree preferred
 * 7+ years relevant industry work experience in a production environment
 * Expert software developer in C++ and build systems (Conan, Cmake, Bazel)
 * Experience using software project management software (Jira, Confluence, etc.)
 * Proven system integration and software architecture skills
 * Strong background in linear/non-linear optimization, linear algebra or statistics
 * Experience with building frameworks/software infrastructure for large scale projects, * Working knowledge of the Planning and Prediction modules of the AV stack
 * Working knowledge of software tools like ROS2, PyTorch
 * Experience integrating and deploying AI models

## Description

We are seeking passionate Senior/Staff Software Engineers, who have strong fundamentals in software development practices and are experts in C++ language in production-oriented environment. The ideal candidate is a highly experienced C++ developer with a passion for enabling the world's first safe, reliable & efficient network of autonomous vehicles. You will partner with the research and software engineers to design, develop, test and validate AV features for our autonomous fleet., * Design, implement, integrate, and support real-time mission-critical software for the Gatik's autonomy stack

 * Work with the research engineers to develop maintainable, testable and robust software designs
 * Architect and implement solutions to complex issues between components partitioned across the large software stack
 * Be at the forefront of guiding & ensuring best SDLC practices while contributing to improving the safety in the core autonomy stack
 * Collaborate with the Infrastructure and DevOps teams for efficient, secure and scalable software delivery to a network of Gatik's autonomous fleet
 * Guide and mentor autonomy researchers and algorithm developers to make sure their components are running efficiently and with optimal compute and memory usage
 * Review and refine technical requirements and translate them into high-level design & plans to support the development of safe AV technology
 * Conduct code and design reviews and advise on technical matters


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