Software Engineer, Parallel
Test/Internal Tooling
$140-164k
Powering autonomous rail
Be an early applicant
Powering autonomous rail
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-164k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide a safer, more efficient, and sustainable alternative to short-haul trucking, seamlessly integrating with existing rail operations and powering the future of freight.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of software development skills and professional experience with both scripting (Python, JS, etc.) and systems (C++/Rust) programming languages
- Professional experience, or a high interest, in working on software test infrastructure with the ability to reason about correctness, performance, and system design
- Experience with both hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing and software-in-the-loop (SITL) simulations
- Working proficiency with Linux and the software test/build/deploy lifecycle
- Demonstrated success in leading technical design, setting direction, and mentoring other engineers
Desirable
- 2+ years of experience building test software and/or internal tooling, with an emphasis on hard tech products in addition to conventional cloud software
- Experience in safety-critical domains such as autonomous vehicles, industrial control, or aerospace
- Knowledge of rail control systems (strong plus)
- Ability to work cross-functionally and balance technical depth with product impact
- Experience with polyglot codebases
What the job involves
- Parallel Systems is seeking a Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain critical test software/infrastructure for an autonomous rail vehicle
- In this role, you will work with systems required to ensure that our autonomous rail vehicles satisfy all regulatory, technical, and safety requirements
- This position requires strong software development skills as well as deep expertise in testing both cloud-based software and physical hardware systems
- Moreover, candidates will need to be able to guide overall testing strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate across product, software, hardware, and infrastructure/IT teams to deliver reliable, scalable solutions
- Design, develop, and maintain testing frameworks for on-vehicle software as well as cloud-based services
- Design, develop, and maintain hardware test stands for the vehicle subsystems
- Maintain continuous integration (CI) pipeline, with an emphasis on reliability, speed, and cost effectiveness
- Partner with hardware and software teams to develop useful internal software tooling
- Contribute to regulatory documentation, including software traceability and test protocols
- When appropriate, step into project leadership, ensuring milestones are well-defined and achieved
- What Success Looks Like
- After 30 Days: You've developed a working understanding of our testing infrastructure and are actively assisting in the bring-up of new test systems
- After 60 Days: You’ve developed a deep understanding of our testing infrastructure. You are assisting in significant overhauls and expansions to our testing capabilities, as well as actively driving discussions around the testing team’s overall strategy and priorities
- After 90 Days: You’ve delivered major testing features and are proactively ensuring the testing team’s roadmap is aligned with the company’s future milestones
Our take
The huge freight networks of the U.S. currently face the significant challenge of optimizing their supply chain logistics whilst meeting regulations for the mitigation of global warming. Whilst electric trucking startups provide a small-scale solution, the $700B industry is enormous, and replacing trucks would be unaffordable to most companies.
Parallel designs autonomous, zero-emissions freight transportation systems for railways, providing a sustainable alternative to freight trucking. The automated rail vehicles use existing railway networks to increase infrastructure utilization and open railroads to new markets, whilst providing an alternative to logistics companies that is safer, faster, zero-emission, and lower cost.
While the company faces competition in fellow autonomous railcar company Intramotev, Parallel shows promise to disrupt the market by being based on pre-existing infrastructure that is faster, safer, and cheaper than road-based logistics. Through this approach, the company can help logistics companies become carbon-neutral whilst increasing their access to railway freight, thus saving them money and boosting opportunities for revenue growth.
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Insights
66% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2025
$38m
SERIES B
Jan 2022
$49.6m
SERIES A
Total funding: $91.2m
Company HQ
Arts District, Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Matt Soule
(Founder & CEO)Prior to Founding Parallel in 2020, Matt spent 13 years at SpaceX, joining in 2006 as an Avionics Engineer. They then held various roles at the company before becoming a Principal Avionics Engineer. Before this, they were an Electrical/Controls Engineer at Northrop Grumman and an Electrical Engineer at Lockheed Martin.
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