Senior Software Engineer, Stack AV
Autonomy Performance Evaluation IC
Autonomous systems for the transportation industry
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Autonomous systems for the transportation industry
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To revolutionise the transportation industry through the deployment of advanced autonomous systems.
Role
Who you are
- Strong experience in software engineering and algorithm design
- Fluent in Python
- Experience with SQL and C++ a plus
What the job involves
- The Autonomy Evaluation team is responsible for measuring the performance of the self-driving system
- This team develops evaluation methods, metrics pipelines and tooling that will be used directly to drive development priorities, system architecture and inform operational domain decisions
- The goal is to provide a reliable, highly differentiable signal for the product development team to optimize and use to deliver the best possible product. The team will work to provide a holistic view of the overall autonomy performance
- Work in a team to design and develop systems to evaluate the performance of self-driving systems
- Contribute to the technical direction for the team and work cross-functionally to communicate with stakeholders and solicit feedback from customer teams
- Write software to run offline simulations, compute autonomy performance measures and aggregate/visualize results
- Work closely with systems engineers to ensure a safe, well tested product is delivered
- Collaborate with the various autonomy teams (localization, perception, prediction, planning, controls, etc.) to integrate performance measures for these subsystems
- Identify bottlenecks and developer pain points and optimize workflows to help create the most efficient autonomy development experience in the industry
- Provide input to team roadmaps and ensure product features are properly prioritized
- Be involved in experimentation, design and iteration exercises, and help to align stakeholders by using strong presentation and communication skills
- This position may also involve working with software and technologies subject to U.S. export control regulations
Our take
Driver shortages, decelerating efficiency and broad safety concerns have plagued the US trucking industry for some time now. High operating costs paired with increasingly scrutinised high emissions are leading to concern over the future of the logistics and goods transport market. Stack AV’s autonomous trucking solution aims to lighten the load on these issues, utilising AI to build smart supply chains and autonomous driving systems.
Its founding team has long been exploring the possibilities of autonomous transport through combined experience with Uber and Google smart cars and shared founding roles at Argo AI. This similar company disbanded in 2022 after it failed to become profitable for shareholders. Hopefully, however, the launch of Stack AV will balance the founders' decades of experience and the hard lessons learnt from the failed predecessor company, opening the road to new ways to make autonomous driving tech a sustainable investment.
With a staggering $1 billion investment from SoftBank in 2023, the company is well-armoured for the time being. Its main competitor is Aurora, which underwent a successful IPO in 2021 but never achieved this high level of early funding. It’s a promising start, then for the Argo AI veterans' venture.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2023
$1bn
SERIES A
Total funding: $1bn
Company HQ
Downtown, Pittsburgh, PA
Leadership
Brian Salesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CEO of Argo AI, Director of Hardware Development for self-driving cars at Google, Principal Commercialization Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center, and Technical Program Manager at Google.
Peter Rander
(Co-Founder & President)Previously President and Co-Founder at Argo AI, Engineering Lead at Uber and Principal Commercialization Specialist at the National Robotics Engineering Center.
Brett Browning
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously CTO at Argo AI, Senior Engineering Manager at Uber Advanced Technologies Center, Co-Founder at Mine Vision Systems and a Senior Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
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