Senior Embedded Performance Engineer

About the role

Auterion is seeking a Senior Embedded Performance Engineer to optimize embedded systems for autonomous robotic platforms. You will work across the AuterionOS ecosystem, focusing on low-level Linux tuning, hardware integration, and high-performance data and video pipelines. This role involves solving complex technical challenges where system efficiency, latency, and reliability are critical.

Responsibilities

• Work within the Apps & Simulation team and collaborate with other development teams to build high-performance products for autonomous systems.
• Design, optimize, and maintain performance-critical components within AuterionOS, Auterion’s custom embedded Linux distribution.
• Improve end-to-end system behavior across compute, networking, video, and hardware interfaces, with a strong focus on latency, throughput, reliability, and resource efficiency.
• Analyze and optimize demanding workloads such as real-time telemetry, video streaming, media processing, and communication between distributed system components.
• Investigate system bottlenecks across the full stack, from kernel and OS behavior to application-level code and tooling.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to understand both internal and customer use cases, and translate them into robust technical solutions.
• Propose and implement new platform capabilities with a strong emphasis on measurable performance gains in real-world deployments.
• Participate in daily stand-ups, release planning, and prioritization discussions.

Required skills

• C++
• Python
• Embedded Linux
• System profiling
• Performance tuning
• Video streaming
• Data pipelines
• Bash
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• systemd
• Docker
• qemu
• ROS2
• DDS

Nice to have

• CMake

Qualifications

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of professional experience writing object-oriented C++ and/or Python

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Stock Options
• Generous holiday allowance
• Company pension plan
• Car parking
• Enhanced maternity & paternity leave
• Mental health and wellbeing support
• Learning and development opportunities

About the Company

Auterion builds a cutting-edge operating system for autonomous robotic systems that empower a diverse range of platforms to perform surveillance, reconnaissance, inspection, mapping and logistics tasks. We are building the leading software platform for AI-powered autonomous systems for enterprise and government customers.