Senior Software Engineer - Autonomy Platform

Have you ever worked somewhere that challenges you every day? A place where you solve meaningful problems, build exciting technology, and work alongside people who genuinely enjoy collaborating?

If you work in the Bay Area, you probably have. What makes Zendar special then?

We don’t really do politics, we don’t have meetings “just for show” or “to make leadership happy”. We are the masters of both prototyping very fast, and at the same time taking more effort or another iteration on a design where needed. And we carefully choose people we work with and it really shows in our team culture - we are a team of driven, smart and humble engineers from all around the world.

No toxic corporate clones, please.

Sounds interesting?

Zendar is looking for an experienced Software Engineer with passion for SW design and desire to bring things to life in the real world. If you have years of SW background, your heart beats for good design and you can keep up with the fast pace of a startup, you might like the challenge. Our team is a testament of the ability to unite engineers of different backgrounds over a common vision.

We do not shy away from reality and its limitations but we also dream big.

You don’t have to fit in a box. We are not looking for a superhero. But we might be looking for you!

Zendar builds a radar-centric autonomy stack which makes any vehicle - from cars to robots - autonomous in any environment. With our deep radar DNA, we have architected our solution to put RF sensing at the core of all perception. The result is a system that handles long range, high speeds, and bad weather not as edge cases but as a core strength of the autonomy stack.

Because radars naturally measure both 3D position and velocity for every object in the environment, radar-centric autonomy is extremely compute- and data-efficient. Our autonomous vehicle needs only a few thousand dollars of hardware to make it completely autonomous, making this the cheapest way to build an autonomous vehicle by far.

See a demo of Zendar’s foundational RF perception and driving functions.

To develop this capability we had to build the entire stack in house - from radar sensor hardware to signal processing to multi-modal perception foundation models and path and trajectory planning. As part of a small team, you will have a front-row seat to seeing how a complete autonomy stack is architected and how your engineering decisions improve the ability to navigate autonomously in the real world.

Although AI is central to what we build, our hiring process is intentionally human: every résumé is reviewed by a real person.

Our Software Platform team builds all the sensor, data, and demo infrastructure that makes Zendar run. As a result, this team interacts with every other engineering team at Zendar to do things like integrate and bring up new sensors, launch demos of new models and algorithms, visualize radar data in real time, and scalably collect data for training ML models. All of this comes together in our evaluation kit (EVK) which is the primary way that our customers interact with all of Zendar’s technology.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform team of 5 engineers (3 in Berkeley and 2 in Lindau, Germany) with a strong team culture and wide range of expertise, from low-level device drivers up to UI development. You will contribute to all those levels of abstraction across a wide range of project types. This role is ideal for someone with very strong software fundamentals, and comfort and eagerness to learn new domains and challenge themself.

• Enable Development of New Perception-based Platforms
  • Integrate new models and algorithms into existing application
  • Work with research teams to support Motion planning and Control of vehicle development
• Develop and Maintain Data Collection Platform
  • Support data collection requirements from our ML team by adapting the current platform with new sensors and features
• Set and Maintain Software Standards
  • Drive the team to uphold good SW development practices like testing or efficient deployment
  • Work with teams in the company to maintain unified SW…