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About this Senior/Staff System Software Engineer — ADAS Vision Platform role at Phantom AI

Phantom AI · Onsite · Mountain View, California, United States

About Us

PhantomVision™ is Phantom AI's production computer vision system for ADAS: a multi-camera, real-time perception stack that ships on automotive ECUs running Linux, QNX, and INTEGRITY. Behind the perception algorithms sits the platform that makes them run — the real-time runtime, the sensor and data pipelines, the simulation and test infrastructure, and the interfaces to the vehicle. This role owns that platform.

You'll work at the boundary where algorithms meet hardware, where recorded data meets live systems, and where a research idea becomes software that runs deterministically at 30 frames per second in a moving car.

What you'll do

  • Own the runtime infrastructure of a real-time vision system: task orchestration, inter-process messaging, sensor ingestion, and deterministic data flow under hard latency budgets
  • Build the infrastructure that lets the vision stack run anywhere — on target ECUs, on a developer's desk, and at scale against large volumes of recorded drive data
  • Design and evolve data replay, simulation, and regression-testing systems that turn field recordings into fast, repeatable development loops
  • Keep the stack portable and efficient across compute platforms and DNN inference runtimes, from datacenter GPUs to automotive SoCs
  • Design the real-time communication paths that connect the vision system to vehicle platforms and external consumers
  • Engineer to automotive safety and security standards (ISO 26262, ISO 21434) without giving up development speed
  • Build and sharpen the team's AI-assisted engineering workflows — coding agents, AI-assisted code review, test generation — and set the standard for how they're used well

What you bring

  • 6+ years building system software for real-time or embedded environments
  • Expert-level C++ (and solid C), including debugging on real hardware under real-time constraints
  • Deep grounding in operating systems and computer architecture: scheduling, memory, caches, IPC, and what they cost
  • Hands-on ROS or ROS2 experience — designing nodes/components, defining messages, working with bag data
  • Fluency in serialization and middleware (Protocol Buffers, DDS, ZeroMQ, or similar) and network programming over TCP/UDP/Ethernet
  • Working practice with AI-assisted development tools as a normal part of how you build, debug, and test
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Depth in an RTOS or safety-grade platform: QNX, RT Linux, or Green Hills INTEGRITY
  • Experience across both ROS1 and ROS2 ecosystems, including bag formats (rosbag/rosbag2/MCAP) and DDS configuration
  • DNN inference runtimes and accelerators: TensorRT, TIDL, CUDA, quantized inference, and their pre/post-processing pipelines
  • Cloud-scale data or simulation pipelines: containers, orchestration, batch compute, CI at fleet-data volume
  • Automotive communication protocols: CAN, automotive Ethernet, SOME/IP
  • Time spent shipping software in an automotive, robotics, or autonomous-vehicle setting

 

Benefit

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Office snacks & reimbursable meals*
  • Paid Time Off 
  • FSA
  • 401K

 

Equal Opportunity for Diversity & Inclusion

Phantom AI provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

 

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About Us

At Phantom AI, we’ve built cost effective level 2/3 solutions to reduce the burden of everyday driving and make the roads safe for everyone. For instance, we believe democratizing technologies such as Automatic Emergency Braking and Emergency Lane Support is the first priority before tackling a fully self-driving vehicle. Our main customers are Tier 1 automotive manufacturers who are focused on delivering level 2/3 solutions and in the future will deliver full autonomy. We differentiate ourselves from other autonomous driving startups through a combination of state-of-the-art technological know-how and real automotive experiences of shipping ADAS systems at volume production scale.

We are building a team of incredibly talented and ambitious people challenging the norm in the automotive industry. If you feel that you have the passion, commitment, and drive to challenge the status quo within the automotive industry, we would love to hear from you.

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