Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• You don’t have to fit in a box. We are not looking for a superhero. But we might be looking for you!
• Ability to work from the office in Berkeley, CA, at least from Tuesday to Thursday
• 5+ years of experience in SW engineering
• Proficiency with C++ and Python
• Experience leading features from design through production
• Ability to break down complex problems into well-defined technical solutions
• A proactive approach to solving problems and willingness to take on new challenges as they arise
• Somebody with solid opinions based on experience, yet open-minded and flexible to find the best solution for the situation
• Experience working with hardware, especially automotive sensors (radar, lidar, camera, CANbus)
• Experience with Javascript or UI development
• Experience with working with Linux
• A track record of excelling in ambiguous or evolving roles in a fast-paced environment

What the job involves

• Zendar is looking for an experienced Software Engineer with passion for SW design and desire to bring things to life in the real world
• If you have years of SW background, your heart beats for good design and you can keep up with the fast pace of a startup, you might like the challenge
• Our team is a testament of the ability to unite engineers of different backgrounds over a common vision
• We do not shy away from reality and its limitations but we also dream big
• Our Software Platform team builds all the sensor, data, and demo infrastructure that makes Zendar run
• As a result, this team interacts with every other engineering team at Zendar to do things like integrate and bring up new sensors, launch demos of new models and algorithms, visualize radar data in real time, and scalably collect data for training ML models
• All of this comes together in our evaluation kit (EVK) which is the primary way that our customers interact with all of Zendar’s technology
• We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform team of 5 engineers (3 in Berkeley and 2 in Lindau, Germany) with a strong team culture and wide range of expertise, from low-level device drivers up to UI development
• You will contribute to all those levels of abstraction across a wide range of project types
• This role is ideal for someone with very strong software fundamentals, and comfort and eagerness to learn new domains and challenge themself
• Enable Development of New Perception-based Platforms
• Integrate new models and algorithms into existing application
• Work with research teams to support Motion planning and Control of vehicle development
• Develop and Maintain Data Collection Platform
• Support data collection requirements from our ML team by adapting the current platform with new sensors and features
• Set and Maintain Software Standards
• Drive the team to uphold good SW development practices like testing or efficient deployment
• Work with teams in the company to maintain unified SW architecture across platforms
• We are currently on a 3rd iteration of our data collection rig and we are just starting to work on the next generation
• We need a solution with enough robustness and stability to get us through the day of data collection without issues, which we can customize and most importantly develop on our own so that we are not dependent on external support
• We are including new sensors and the number of them is always growing so keeping up with the growing data load is critical
• Our perception models currently run primarily on a GPU laptop in the demo cars but we are developing an embedded solution as well to get closer to production-ready kit
• The Platform team is taking care of integrating the new C++-only inference pipeline into our ecosystem by developing a control application, interacting with our in-house UI and the performant backend
• Even though we talk about CI/CD in Zendar and our CI is not something developers complain about often (yay!
• ), the deployment part still needs to be developed
• We want to move away from checking out code on our platforms and locally building, to a distribution of the released SDK
• The next generation of our UI has been developed this year and it now covers most functionality needed for customer demos
• However, we want the new UI to be also used for debugging issues and analysing scenes, which will require new features