Staff / Principal Engineer - US

Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for a Staff / Principal Engineer to architect and lead the design of the vehicle

compute and networking stack — the modular, scalable interface between autonomy

software and the underlying hardware platforms. You will own the technical roadmap for

hardware health monitoring and fleet-wide performance optimization, set the engineering

standards that keep our platforms fast and dependable, and provide deep technical

oversight across software, hardware, and systems teams.

This is a hands-on leadership position. You will still be in the code and on the bench for the

hardest problems — from Linux kernel tuning to multi-layer networking — while mentoring

senior engineers and driving architectural decisions that scale across the fleet.

What You'll Do

• Architect and lead the design of the vehicle compute and networking stack, ensuring a

modular, scalable interface between autonomy software and hardware platforms.

• Drive the technical roadmap for hardware health monitoring and fleet-wide

performance optimization.

• Lead cross-functional integration of new sensors and embedded devices, and define

standards for low-latency data interfaces.

• Establish engineering standards for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing and automated

performance profiling.

• Provide technical oversight on complex system-level issues spanning Linux kernel

tuning, high-performance C++, and multi-layer networking (OSI Layers 1–4).

• Define the architecture for on-target diagnostics and self-test — CPU, communication,

and memory load generation, power-on self-tests, controlled shutdown/sleep

sequences, voltage-fault detection with safe-state entry, and memory/logic BIST —

and set standards for how these are triggered, monitored, and reported across ECUs.

• Establish standards for communication-bus health and error monitoring across CAN

and Ethernet, including link-integrity, cable-fault, and signal-integrity detection, with

fleet-level logging and reporting.

• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar for design, code quality, and

system reliability across teams.

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including leading large-scale architecture

at the hardware/software interface.

• Expert-level C++ for high-performance, thread-safe, memory-efficient Linux systems.

• 5+ years of system-level development: Linux networking stacks, performance

profiling, and hardware bring-up.

• Deep command of networking protocols across the stack — low-level (CAN, UDP, TCP)

and high-level (gRPC, RTP,

• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership across software, hardware, and systems

teams, with a track record of shipping complex platforms.

• Strong systems-debugging instincts — the ability to reason across the boundary from

application code down to kernel, driver, and hardware behavior.

Nice to Have

• Experience with autonomy sensors — lidar, radar, and camera — and their integration

into low-latency data pipelines.

• Time-Sensitive Networking protocols (PTP / gPTP) and Ethernet switching.

• Functional safety frameworks such as ISO 26262.

• Heterogeneous compute performance optimization across CPU, GPU, and

accelerators.

• Networking certifications.

• Experience building distributed fleet health-monitoring frameworks.

Why Join Us

You'll set the technical direction for the compute and networking backbone of autonomous-

vehicle platforms — work that spans silicon to fleet, and code to architecture. It's a role for

an engineer who wants both the ownership of a principal-level mandate and the satisfaction

of solving the deepest system-level problems on real hardware.

\nCompany Description

Vayavya Labs builds embedded software and firmware for the semiconductor and
automotive industries, with deep expertise in low-level device software, driver automation,
and safety-critical systems. Our engineers work close to the metal — from silicon bring-up
to production firmware — and increasingly at the compute and networking layer that
connects autonomy software to the vehicle's hardware platforms. This is a role for a
technical leader who wants to shape that stack end to end.

Company Description

Vayavya Labs builds embedded software and firmware for the semiconductor and\nautomotive industries, with deep expertise in low-level device software, driver automation,\nand safety-critical systems. Our engineers work close to the metal — from silicon bring-up\nto production firmware — and increasingly at the compute and networking layer that\nconnects autonomy software to the vehicle's hardware platforms. This is a role for a\ntechnical leader who wants to shape that stack end to end.