4 hours ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Build high-performance products for autonomous systems within the Apps & Simulation team and in collaboration with other development teams.
- Design, optimize, and maintain performance-critical components in AuterionOS.
- Improve system behavior across compute, networking, video, and hardware interfaces, focusing on latency, throughput, reliability, and resource efficiency.
- Analyze and optimize real-time telemetry, video streaming, media processing, and communication between distributed system components.
- Investigate bottlenecks across kernel, operating system, application, and tooling layers.
- Translate internal and customer use cases into robust technical solutions.
- Propose and implement platform capabilities that deliver measurable performance gains in real-world deployments.
- Participate in stand-ups, release planning, and prioritization discussions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of professional experience writing object-oriented C++ and/or Python.
- Deep experience with embedded Linux, including cross-compilation, debugging, profiling, and performance tuning.
- Hands-on experience diagnosing and optimizing CPU, memory, I/O, networking, boot time, and application latency.
- Experience building or optimizing low-latency video or data-streaming pipelines, preferably on embedded platforms.
- Strong understanding of software systems spanning embedded devices, higher-level applications, and integrated products.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in system design, implementation, debugging, and testing.
- Experience with video codecs, GStreamer, RTP/RTSP, or hardware-accelerated media pipelines.
- Experience with Debian/Ubuntu-based systems, Bash scripting, and systemd.
- Experience with Docker, Docker Compose, and QEMU in complex development and deployment environments.
- Strong system- and application-level debugging and performance analysis skills.
- Proficiency with ROS2/DDS-style middleware and networking across multiple OSI layers.
- Experience integrating systems and interfacing sensors or peripherals, especially through USB and Ethernet.
- Experience working in an agile engineering environment with stand-ups, sprint planning, and shared ownership.
- Experience with build systems such as CMake is a bonus.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours.
- Stock options.
- Generous holiday allowance.
- Company pension plan.
- Car parking.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
- Mental health and wellbeing support.
- Learning and development opportunities.
About Auterion
Auterion builds an operating system and software platform for autonomous robots and drones, combining onboard autonomy with cloud-based fleet management for enterprise and government operators. It monetizes through commercial subscriptions, integrations, and support for its PX4-based stack used across delivery, inspection, and defense applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, Auterion is privately held.