Software Engineer - Robot Compute Platform

Microsoft
Shanghai, VA, United States
about 2 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Neural Networks C++ (Programming Language) Communications Protocols Data Transmissions Software Debugging Linux Memory Management Linux on Embedded Systems Middleware EtherCAT Python (Programming Language)
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Performance Tuning Software Engineering Data Logging Delivery Pipeline Parallel Computation Information Technology Low Latency Performance Monitor TensorRT Multiaccess Edge Computing C++14

Job description

  • Own the onboard software platform on NVIDIA Jetson: Real-Time Linux configuration, scheduling, and performance tuning
  • Deploy and optimize neural network policies for real-time inference: TensorRT, quantization, zero-copy data paths, strict latency budgets
  • Implement and maintain the EtherCAT/CAN master and the joint-level communication with the Motor Controller PCBs
  • Integrate sensors: IMU drivers, filtering and time synchronization, cameras and additional sensing as needed
  • Build the middleware that moves observations and actions between the bus and the policy at loop rate, deterministically
  • Develop logging, replay, and introspection tooling for the whole robot software stack
  • Work daily with the RL and Sim2Real engineers on the deployment pipeline, and with embedded on the bus API

Requirements

  • A systems software engineer who thinks in latency budgets and memory copies
  • Equally comfortable in CUDA/TensorRT and in a CAN bus trace
  • You take full ownership from kernel configuration to inference output, * B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 8+ years of software engineering with heavy C/C++ focus; deep understanding of modern C++, memory management, and parallelism
  • Extensive experience developing and debugging in embedded Linux environments; real-time or low-latency systems experience
  • Hands-on experience deploying neural networks on edge platforms (NVIDIA Jetson, TensorRT or equivalent)
  • Knowledge of embedded communication protocols: EtherCAT, CAN, SPI, I2C
  • Production-grade Python for tooling and pipelines
  • Experience with PREEMPT_RT kernels and real-time performance monitoring

Advantages:

  • Experience with GPU-accelerated services using zero-copy mechanisms to minimize data transfer latency
  • ROS 2 experience
  • Background in autonomous driving or edge-AI platforms (e.g., Xpeng, NIO, Horizon Robotics)
  • Comfortable communicating technical topics in English with international teams

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