Senior Software Engineer, Vay
C++
Driverless mobility service
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Driverless mobility service
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To speed up the rollout of driverless mobility services by using its remote human-assisted driving technologies to build trust in its services.
Role
Who you are
- Strong proficiency in modern C++ (C++17 or later) with a focus on multi-threaded, high-performance applications
- Solid foundation in networking fundamentals and protocols (TCP/UDP)
- Comfortable working in Linux environments with deep system-level understanding
- Experience with distributed systems and real-time data transport
- Proven ability to profile, analyze, and optimize systems end-to-end
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset
Desirable
- Understanding of networking and wireless technologies, including LTE/5G, WiFi, Starlink, and experience with tools like Wireshark for traffic analysis
- Hands-on experience with streaming protocols, such as RTP/RTCP/RTMP/SRT, and media frameworks, such as GStreamer, FFmpeg, or DirectShow
- Familiarity with congestion control algorithms and network simulation environments
- Experience with building and deployment (e.g. CMake, Docker, Yocto), and scripting languages such as Python or Lua
- Experience in real-time or embedded systems development, with knowledge of modem configuration via AT commands
- Background in performance analysis and debugging, using tools like perf, perfetto; and graphical UIs like ImGui
What the job involves
- At Vay, our Connectivity team is at the core of delivering low-latency, real-time video and telemetry streaming across cellular and satellite networks.
- In this role, you’ll work on one of the most technically thrilling challenges—building and optimizing our high-performance Networking Stack and deploying it on cutting-edge hardware
- You’ll contribute to the safety and efficiency of our remote driving system, working in a collaborative team that values precision, resilience, and reliability. If you love performance tuning, debugging live systems, and keeping your code elegant under pressure, this is your chance to shape the core of Vay’s tech stack
- Build and maintain a high-performance, low-latency network stack transporting video, audio, control, and telemetry data
- Integrate our network stack into various hardware and software platforms
- Continuously improve system performance by profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing
- Extend and maintain network testbeds and CI infrastructure to ensure robust deployment pipelines
- Analyze production incidents and implement fixes to improve system reliability and performance
Our take
Driverless cars are often considered as the future of transport, but the AI-driven innovation is not yet powerful and safe enough to be made publically available. Furthermore, it is anticipated that many people would not trust AI-driven driverless cars regardless of their state of development, preferring to know that a human is behind the wheel.
Vay develops autonomous driving hardware powered by "teledriving", a system in which cars are driven remotely by humans. The German company will begin by providing orderable cars that can be driven manually by the customer but parked remotely by Vay staff, with future use cases including full remote rides, ride-sharing, last-mile delivery, and public transport.
Whilst other companies such as Mobileye have made plans to provide driverless cars to German cities, Vay is standing out with its unique focus on the trust of teledriving. Furthermore, the initial focus on autonomous parking will greatly speed up rollout and give the company a competitive edge. 2024 funding is being used to expand its development team and grow its European market.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2021
$95m
SERIES B
May 2019
$13.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $108.9m
Company benefits
- You will be part of a highly committed, experienced, fun and international team from over 25 countries
- You'll be a part of improving transportation in metropolitan areas around the world - from Europe
- We offer healthy snacks, drinks and coffee in our modern waterfront office in Hamburg
- We have a generous, highly employee-friendly stock option plan and pay above industry standards
- We organize thoughtful & fun team events throughout the year
- We support highly flexible working policies where possible as well as support for your relocation – it doesn’t matter where you currently live
- We contribute to a FitX or UrbanSportsClub membership, plus free and all-day use of our Gravity Gym in the Berlin office
- We contribute to your monthly public transport ticket in Berlin so that it costs you <50% of the regular price
Company HQ
Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Thomas von der Ohe
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Senior Technical Program Manager for Amazon Lab126 between 2014 and 2016. Technical Program Manager for Zoox Inc. between 2016 and 2018. Co-founded Vay as CEO in 2018.
Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi
(CTO & Co-Founder)Founded autonomous driving company Mov.ING in 2014, acting as CTO until 2017.
Bogdan Djukic
(VP of Engineering & Co-Founder)Experience as a Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft between 2013 and 2017.
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