Senior Performance Engineer

Job Title : Senior Performance Engineer (Consultant)

Location : Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Term : 3-Month Contract

The Opportunity

We are seeking an elite Senior Performance Engineer for a short-term consulting engagement to drive critical optimizations in our autonomous vehicle's onboard software stack.

This role requires a deep-dive analysis of our near real-time Linux-based system, identifying and eliminating bottlenecks to ensure maximum efficiency, reliability, and deterministic performance. This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise to one of the most challenging problems in technology today, with a direct and measurable impact on the performance of our autonomous fleet.

What You'll Do

• Conduct comprehensive performance analysis across the entire software stack, from the Linux kernel and drivers to the application layer.
• Utilize advanced profiling and tracing tools such as perf, eBPF, and ftrace to diagnose CPU, GPU, memory, I / O, and network bottlenecks.
• Optimize system and thread scheduling to meet near real-time deadlines and minimize latency in critical processing pipelines.
• Analyze Inter-Process Communication (IPC) mechanisms to increase throughput and reduce overhead.
• Identify and remediate architectural pitfalls that can cause performance degradation, memory fragmentation, or unpredictable timing.
• Collaborate closely with core engineering teams to implement architectural improvements.
• Develop and document best practices and performance-aware design patterns for engineers.
• Establish KPIs and monitoring tools to prevent performance regressions.

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