Senior Software Engineer - Transport Infrastructure

Atoms•San Francisco, CA

2d•$180,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

Atoms is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Transport Infrastructure team. The role builds infrastructure that supports autonomous systems and vehicle fleets, connecting vehicle hardware and simulation environments with centralized cloud services. The work spans developer tooling, APIs and workflows; GPU clusters for model training, simulation and data ingestion; networking between field vehicles and cloud data centers; and observability infrastructure for fleet and cloud health, performance and safety. The position is based onsite at Atoms’ San Francisco office five days per week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience designing, building and operating high-concurrency backend distributed systems in production.
Experience with one or more of Go, C++, Rust or Python.
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP or Azure, containerization, and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.
Practical understanding of networking protocols such as TCP/IP, gRPC, WebSockets and MQTT, load balancing, and edge-to-cloud or data center communications.
Experience managing compute orchestration, high-throughput storage pipelines, or GPU workloads for AI/ML training and simulation.
Broad system design skills and an infrastructure generalist mindset, with the ability to work across networking, developer tooling and compute clusters as priorities evolve.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with hardware.

Responsibilities

Build developer experience tooling, APIs and workflows that help autonomous systems engineers deploy, test and iterate on vehicle hardware and simulation environments.
Architect and operate high-throughput GPU clusters for deep learning model training, fleet simulation and large-scale data ingestion.
Design resilient, low-latency networking for data communication between autonomous vehicles in the field and distributed cloud data centers.
Develop telemetry, logging, metrics and tracing infrastructure to monitor vehicle fleet and cloud service health, performance and safety in real time.
Build abstractions and proxy interfaces connecting the Transport domain with Atoms’ centralized infrastructure stack.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance, with multiple plans including HSA options.
Company-paid short- and long-term life and disability insurance.
Voluntary accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance.
Optional supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses and children.
Pet insurance discount.
401(k).
Health Savings Account (HSA).
Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare, dependent care and commuter expenses.
Discretionary vacation days.
Eight paid holidays per year.
Paid sick time.
Paid bereavement leave.
Paid parental leave.
Equity awards may be available.
An annual performance-based bonus may be available.