(Principal) Senior C++ Engineer

About

As a (Principal) Senior C++ Engineer in the Remote Driving Platform team, you will work on the foundational software stack that powers Vay’s driverless fleet. This is the layer that everything else depends on: health management, telemetry, safety integrations, compute performance, and the core platform enabling safe operation on public roads without a safety driver. You will operate at the intersection of software architecture, performance engineering, and hardware evaluation, shaping the compute backbone of our remote driving system. Your work directly impacts safety, scalability, and our ability to deploy and operate thousands of vehicles globally. Owning the platform means owning reliability, performance, and developer velocity across the organization. The scope is deep, highly technical, and critical to Vay’s long term success. You will design and evolve the common software platform components that other engineering teams build upon. Your work will ensure that our remote driving stack is performant, observable, and production ready at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and maintain core C++ platform components used across Vay
• Build and improve system level tooling for health management, telemetry and incident handling
• Own performance profiling and optimization across vehicle and remote driving compute
• Contribute to the evaluation and selection of compute hardware for vehicles and remote driving stations
• Improve and extend hardware in the loop test setups to accelerate feedback cycles
• Support the production fleet in Berlin and Las Vegas on a scheduled basis
• Collaborate closely with autonomy, systems and fleet teams to ensure safe and scalable deployments

Benefits

• You will be part of a highly committed, experienced, fun and international team from over 25 countries
• You’ll be a part of improving transportation in metropolitan areas around the world - from Europe
• We offer healthy snacks, drinks and coffee in our modern waterfront office in Hamburg
• We have a generous, highly employee-friendly stock option plan and pay above industry standards
• We organize thoughtful & fun team events throughout the year
• We support highly flexible working policies where possible as well as support for your relocation – it doesn’t matter where you currently live
• We contribute to a FitX or UrbanSportsClub membership, plus free and all-day use of our Gravity Gym in the Berlin office
• We contribute to your monthly public transport ticket in Berlin so that it costs you