Staff Engineer I - ADAS

As a Staff I engineer in ADAS you will disambiguate, design and lead the delivery of HD map features leveraging ML algorithms, at scale. As part of that you will devise in partnership with the Engineering Manager and Director of technical strategy, and you will partner with our PM and Operations stakeholders to define priorities, scope work and focus your efforts where they have the most impact, you will work very closely with map data to relentlessly pursue the highest quality, and you will design, assess and improve data pipelines and workflows that deliver our features with minimal human involvement. You will also coach and train other engineers in the team, and multiply your skills. You are not starting from zero, there are existing algorithms and pipelines, but you will need to steer the team from a proof of concept to a stable pipeline that produces results at production quality, consistently. We are looking for a Staff engineer skillful in dealing with ambiguity, partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and experienced with engineering reliable systems. We would love it if you also have experience working with data pipelines, and in particular with DataBricks, or experience working to improve data quality and performing both metric-based and anecdote-based data analysis and root causing.

What you will do:

• Solve complex problems at scale cross teams, owning the software architecture and technical designs
• Provide technical leadership and expertise, acting as a force multiplier
• Enable your team for success through interaction with the technical community at an organization level
• Drive the technical decisions to improve engineering, test, and operational excellence best practices
• Participate to all phases of the project lifecycle – gathering requirements, designing solutions, building new interfaces, integration with existing architectures, development, and testing code
• Build scalable, highly available and resilient applications by utilizing the optimal cloud technologies and programming languages and frameworks that best suit your use cases
• Support hiring for team vacancies, and investments into team and product health

What you will need:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or 8+ years of equivalent experience in at least one modern programming language, including Java
• Proven ability to learn new languages and technologies, and lead others in acquiring new skills
• Comfortable with written and/or verbal communication in English
• Strong Computer Science and development fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis.
• Strong knowledge and practice of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience defining system architectures and exploring technical feasibility trade-offs
• Experience building scalable, distributed, production software systems with an understanding of design for performance and reliability
• Experience working with data processing tools/frameworks and cloud technologies

What we offer

• A competitive compensation package, of course.
• Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.
• Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.
• Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.
• Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.
• Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.
• Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
• Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.
• Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!

Meet your team

We are the ADAS & ADS Product Unit, leading the production of TomTom’s HD maps and ADAS technology. In a diverse team of applied scientists, engineers, data scientists, and more, equipped with a broad array of expertise, you’ll collaborate on groundbreaking location-based technologies and applications. More specifically, you’ll be at the forefront of the creation of advanced HD maps. You’ll also help update these in real-time, ensuring our maps are pushing the world forward instantly. These maps will then go on to empower the largest car manufacturers, transportation giants, and major tech companies around the world.

At TomTom, you’ll help people find their way in the world. In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device. Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.

Work with a team of 3,700 unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.

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