Senior Software Engineer, Platform

Who We Are

Aero Vect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a Series A company backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit

• Design, build, and maintain custom Ubuntu/Linux distributions tailored for real‑time, safety‑critical autonomous vehicle workloads.

• Optimize and tune ROS 2 DDS middleware (e.g., Cyclone DDS, Fast DDS) for low‑latency, high‑throughput multi‑sensor data flows.

• Develop, integrate, and maintain kernel modules and user‑space drivers for LiDARs, cameras, radars, GNSS/INS, CAN, and other vehicle interfaces.

• Maintain and expand the network interfaces of the system.

• Implement observability and logging solutions to monitor system health, performance, and resource utilization in both lab and field deployments.

• Collaborate with autonomy, perception, and controls engineers to profile CPU/GPU usage and remove bottlenecks across the stack.

• Harden the platform for production by applying security patches, enforcing secure boot, and implementing over‑the‑air (OTA) update pipelines.

• Own CI/CD pipelines for OS images and driver packages; automate build, test, and deployment processes.

• Provide on‑call support for platform components during field trials and customer pilots.

• Contribute to technical documentation and best‑practice guidelines for internal and external developers.

• 3+ years of experience developing or maintaining Linux‑based embedded or robotics platforms

• Proficiency in C++ and Python

• Hands‑on experience with ROS 1 or ROS 2 in a production or research setting

• Knowledge of DDS internals and QoS tuning for deterministic data delivery

• Strong grasp of real‑time performance tuning, profiling tools (perf, eBPF, tracing), and resource‑constrained optimization

• Experience with Git, Docker/OCI containers

• Prior work on autonomous vehicles, drones, or other safety‑critical robotic systems

• Experience with ptp4l configurations in complex systems

• Familiarity with common communication buses and protocols (USB, Ethernet, CAN, PCIe, SPI, I2C)

• Experience with v4l2/gstreamer

• Deep knowledge of Ubuntu or Linux systems, including package management, systemd, networking, and kernel configuration

• Experience with Nvidia Orin/Jetson platforms

• Experience with Yocto

• Experience customizing the Linux kernel for  or other real‑time patches

• Familiarity with GPU acceleration frameworks (CUDA, Vulkan) and heterogeneous compute scheduling

• Experience integrating functional safety libraries and tools (e.g., MISRA, ISO 26262 compliance workflow)

• Experience writing or debugging kernel modules and user‑space drivers

• Comfort working in a fast‑paced startup environment and supporting field deployments at airports or other industrial sites