Senior Software Engineer, Vay
C++, Connectivity
+ Employee stock options plan
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Driverless mobility service
Open for applications
Driverless mobility service
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Employee stock options plan
More information about location
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 modern C++ (17 or later) experience building high-performance, multi-thread systems
- Experience working in Linux-based environments
- Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/UDP) and distributed systems experience
- Understanding of wireless and networking technologies (LTE/5G, Wi-Fi, Starlink)
- Hands-on experience with streaming protocols (RTP/RTCP/RTMP/SRT) and media frameworks (GStreamer, FFmpeg, DirectShow)
- Experience with traffic analysis and debugging tools (Wireshark, perf, perfetto)
- Background in real-time or embedded systems, including modem configuration via AT commands
- Familiarity with congestion control algorithms and network simulation environments
- Experience with build and deployment tooling (CMake, Docker, Yocto) and scripting languages (Python, Lua)
- Experience building graphical or developer-facing UIs (e.g. ImGui)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
What the job involves
- As a member of the Connectivity team, you will develop and maintain the Vay Networking Stack and integrate it into various target hardware and software platforms
- You will investigate and triage real-life events using metrics collected by the stack to make further improvements to ensure a safe and smooth remote driving experience
- You will share the responsibility of maintaining the CI and test infrastructure of the team
- You will get to test your solution on exciting state-of-the-art hardware
- Develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance network stack used to transport data (video, audio, control, telemetry) between the vehicle and the telestation with a strong emphasis on clarity, maintainability, and efficiency
- Integrate the Vay network stack into various target hardware and software platforms
- Extend and maintain network testbeds and CI infrastructure
- Profile and optimize the performance of the system
- Triage incidents from the production system and create fixes/improvements
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2025
$60m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$95m
SERIES B
Total funding: $169.6m
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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