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Parallel
Los Angeles, CA
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Parallel Systems is pioneering autonomous battery-electric rail vehicles designed to transform freight transportation by shifting portions of the $900 billion U.S. trucking industry onto rail. Our innovative technology offers cleaner, safer, and more efficient logistics solutions. Join our dynamic team and help shape a smarter, greener future for global freight.
Embedded Software Engineer, Perception
(All Levels)
Parallel Systems is seeking an experienced Firmware Engineer to build the low-level software that powers the perception sensing stack on our fully autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles. In this role, you'll own the drivers, kernel components, and firmware that get high-throughput camera and lidar data off the sensor and into our perception pipeline reliably, in real time, and at scale.
You'll work at the boundary of Linux, ARM, and NVIDIA compute platform, partnering closely with the embedded platform engineers who maintain our custom Linux platforms to bring up hardware, harden drivers, and squeeze every millisecond of latency out of our sensing pipeline. If you like living close to the kernel, the hardware, and the timing budget, we'd love to work with you.
We are open to candidates across a range of experience levels, excluding recent graduates.
You've developed a working understanding of our embedded Linux stack, NVIDIA Tegra/Jetson build system, and sensor architecture. You've identified initial performance bottlenecks and created a development plan to address them.
You've landed driver or kernel-level improvements on at least one sensor pipeline, contributed hands-on to the Yocto/Tegra build alongside the embedded platform team, and built diagnostics for latency, dropped frames, and timing drift. You're actively contributing to the real-time system that handles sensor data ingestion and feeds ML model inference in production.
You own a driver or firmware subsystem end-to-end, with a measurable reduction in latency and jitter and improved timesync across the camera/lidar pipeline. You're contributing to the real-time perception pipeline, including the system handling sensor data and ML model inference, and to GPU/kernel optimization work with clear impact on overall perception throughput.
Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
4+ years of hands-on experience in embedded, firmware, or systems software engineering.
Strong knowledge of Linux internals and driver development on ARM-based platforms.
Proficiency in Rust and C++ for systems-level programming.
Experience with NVIDIA embedded platforms (Jetson/Tegra)
Experience developing or maintaining drivers for high-throughput sensors such as cameras and/or lidar, including data capture, buffering, and timestamp synchronization.
Comfortable debugging across the hardware/software boundary (device tree, kernel logs, oscilloscope, logic analyzer).
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working on interdisciplinary teams.
We are committed to providing fair and transparent compensation in accordance with applicable laws. Salary ranges are listed below and reflect the expected range for new hires in this role, based on factors such as skills, experience, qualifications, and location. Final compensation may vary and will be determined during the interview process. The target hiring range for this position is listed below.
Target Salary Range: $154,000 — $212,000 USD
Parallel Systems is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Parallel Systems will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact your recruiter.
Parallel Systems is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any discriminatory factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We work to build an inclusive environment in which all people can come to do their best work.
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