Senior Software Engineer - Operating System

About the Company

At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.
A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.
Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.

Meet the Team

The Operating System Team develops and maintains a light-weight in-house modified Linux distribution based on the usage of open source technologies. This also comprises the integration of third party libraries to efficiently run Machine Learning based Applications on NVIDIA target SoCs as wall as the development, operation and maintenance of the required build-system technologies

What You’ll Do

• Work on Linux kernel modules

• Incorporate Linux Distribution in to build and deployment toolchain

• Perform system-level debugging and performance tuning

• Develop shell scripts and automation tools

• Troubleshoot system issues and optimize performance

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (DevOps, QA, Hardware, Networking)

• Ensure system security, stability, and scalability

• Manage package builds and deployments

• Contribute to documentation and technical design discussions

• Optimize performance, memory usage, and real-time behavior of embedded applications.

• Integrate and maintain third-party software and open-source software

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field with 5+ years of experience OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field with 3+ years of experience.
  
  
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, including user space vs kernel space, device trees, systems and system boot-up.

• Strong experience with Linux development for time critical Embedded Systems.

• Familiar with Linux Kernel architecture (Scheduler (CFS vs RT), Memory management (paging, slab, CMA), Interrupt handling, softirq/tasklets)

• Deep understanding of Process and IPC (fork/exec, signals, shared memory, pipes, sockets).

• Familiar with Linux boot up sequence and bootloaders.

• Experience with device drivers and user space drivers.

• Linux security knowledge (secure boot chain, signed kernel modules), filesystem hardening, namespace isolation.

• Strong knowledge in building real time Embedded Systems for automotive or similar industries

• Understanding bootloaders and hypervisors.

• Knowledge of applying kernel patches is desirable.

• Board bring up and SOC bring up experience with Linux OS.

• Strong experience with structured fault identification approaches such as STPA or FEMA execution

• Strong experience on requirements based and test-driven release execution

• Knowledge of build systems (Make, CMake, Yocto, Buildstream, Bazel)

• Skills & Tags

  pythonmachine learningaidevopsdatadesign