Senior Software Engineer - Autonomy Frameworks

Torc Robotics · United States

Salary: $160,800 - 193,000 per year Requirements:

• We require a bachelors degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, along with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience; alternatively, a masters degree with 6+ years of experience.
• We value demonstrated success designing and evolving complex production software platforms with ownership of architectural decisions.
• We need deep experience with C++17 and newer language standards.
• We expect comfort using Python for scripting and system integration.
• We look for experience across autonomous systems, robotics, distributed systems, or complex embedded environments using middleware with pub-sub communication patterns.
• We require strong experience with testing, continuous integration, and build systems.
• We need deep systems-level software design experience, including managing technical debt, refactoring large codebases, and evolving platforms while preserving stability and performance.
• We value experience mentoring engineers through technical leadership, architecture reviews, code reviews, and scalable engineering standards.
• We expect strong mastery of software engineering fundamentals, including modular and composable architecture, design patterns, concurrency, testing strategies, and long-term maintainability.
• Bonus experience includes robotics middleware such as ROS 2, distributed systems design, safety-critical software standards such as ISO 26262, SOTIF, or ASPICE, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Bazel, observability and monitoring systems, simulation for regression testing, and schema versioning and conversion at scale.

• We will have you lead the architecture, design, implementation, and evolution of core frameworks that underpin our autonomous driving stack, including state management, inter-component communication, abstraction layers, and shared utilities.
• We will rely on you to guide the technical direction for real-time C++ architectural components that support dependable data flow, component coordination, error handling, and observability across the system.
• You will establish scalable architectural patterns and abstractions that enable autonomous driving capabilities while driving tradeoff discussions and long-term platform decisions.
• You will collaborate closely with our Behavior and Perception teams to maintain clean integration boundaries and coherent shared abstractions.
• You will lead architecture reviews, design discussions, and code reviews while setting engineering standards that strengthen reliability, maintainability, testability, and scalability.
• You will mentor software engineers through technical coaching, architectural guidance, and day-to-day collaboration.
• You will champion architectural quality through validation, testing strategies, observability frameworks, and production-readiness practices.
• You will support root cause analysis of complex platform issues and drive improvements that enhance reliability, performance, and operational resilience.
• You will define and evolve simulation and validation frameworks for rigorous testing across diverse operational scenarios and edge cases.
• You will assess emerging architectural patterns, systems research, and advanced techniques to strengthen our platform foundation and enable future autonomous driving capabilities.
• You will communicate complex architectural concepts and technical vision across engineering, product, and leadership to build alignment on platform direction and strategy.

• Bazel
• Embedded
• Flow
• GitHub
• Support
• Jenkins
• Python
• ROS
• Robotics
• C++

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At Torc, we believe autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business. We have been a leader in autonomous driving since 2007 and have spent more than a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. As part of the Daimler family, we are focused on developing software for automated trucks to change the future of freight movement. This senior role sits on our Autonomy team and works closely with Behavior and Perception to shape the foundational software frameworks for our self-driving stack. We offer a collaborative, energetic, team-focused culture, a competitive compensation package with bonus and stock options, 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees, a 401(k) with a 6% employer match, flexible scheduling, generous paid vacation available immediately, and AD&D and life insurance. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. This hybrid role is based in Ann Arbor, MI, and the posted pay range is $160,800 to $193,000 USD.

last updated 39 week of 2026