Principal Software Engineer

Principal Engineer / Principal Software Engineer / Chief Engineer / Staff Software Engineer

Tangible impact on future and current Human Life!

£150k-£250k Per Annum

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to join a leader in Embodied AI and Driverless cars. You will join a company that focus on intelligent, mapless, agnostic technologies whcih empower vehicles to navigate our roads (B, A & M roads).

The company are at scale-up phase and are growing exponentially, they are looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to join their already world-class, multinational team of engineers as they push the boundaries of frontier artificial intelligence and autonomous, driverless cars.

Responsibilities of the Principal Engineer:

• Building software with both embedded and distributed infrastructure on one side, and machine learning (training and inference) and robotics use cases on the other side
• Technical strategy, contribution to definition and execution of engineering roadmaps
• System Architecture & Design; making technical decisions involving serviceability, sustainability
• Ensuring software engineering best practices are followed (design, code & test)
• Being a leader/technical mentor to all tech colleagues across the software engineering team (including managers and tech leads)

Experience of the Principal Engineer:

• Experience leading projects spanning 20+ team members (engineering)
• Deep understanding of system software which includes hardware level to distributed systems
• Experience delivering complex systems into production, and supporting them post-production
• Experience communicating with senior stakeholders including executives
• Tech agnostic, experience in several OO Languages is desirable but not essential
• They utilise languages such as C++, Rust, Python, Java - any experience of these is a massive plus.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a mission driven company and an opportunity to shape the future of autonomous driving. The business is still small and nimble, giving you the chance to make a huge impact on the direction of the product and platforms.

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary options
• Discretionary Bonus
• Stock Options
• On-site Chef, Bars, Nursery Scheme, Gym (+ Therapy/Yoga sessions), Cycle Scheme
• Large Social Budgets
• Private Health Insurance
• Learning Budgets, Professional Memberships and Training

Each team dictate what routines help them, there is plenty of flexibility on offer for those requiring it. This is a full-time role and they operate a Hybrid way of working 2-3 days a week working from home and the rest in the office. They promote teams coming in together, fuelling innovation, culture and relationship building. They operate core work hours and there is flexibility either side of these to make space for things like school runs, responsibility for loved ones etc.

If you are a Principal Engineer and interested in working on a new, greenfield project and have a tangible impact on the future of human lives, please apply today!