Software Engineer, Full Stack

About TuSimple

TuSimple is a global self-driving truck company based in San Diego and operating self-driving trucks out of Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 2015, TuSimple is developing a commercial-ready Level 4 (SAE) fully-autonomous driving solution for the logistics industry. TuSimple’s trucks are the first and only capable of self-driving from depot-to-depot and do so every day for its customers. The company is driven by a mission to increase safety, decrease transportation costs, and reduce carbon emissions.

Position

As a full stack engineer at TuSimple, you will work on both the back-end infrastructure and front-end Web UIs of various projects, from our offboard infrastructure services to the onboard system, to bring automation and visualization to the company. Your work will greatly improve the efficiency of the research of our algorithm scientists, and expedite the development of engineering infrastructure projects.

Example projects we are working on include:

• Building pipeline scheduling and execution platform, as well as the corresponding frontend to manage and interact with the platform, to do analysis of our simulations and datasets
• Developing on-premises cluster projects as well as utilizing public cloud computing infrastructure services
• Building front-end Web Interface for engineers and testops to control and monitor the onboard system, that visualize in real time, the perceived surroundings and decided routes of our autonomous driving system
• Building web-based tools to optimize the labelling of our datasets to greatly increase the efficiency and correctness

What You’ll Do:

• Discover and optimize performance bottlenecks in existing backend systems, such as database queries, storage solutions, to increase the responsiveness of user queries
• Architect, implement and maintain performant and scalable data processing backend systems that can handle tremendous amount of data generated daily
• Work with various teams globally, such as prediction, simulation and onboard runtime, to build web-based tools to facilitate their development lifecycle
• Work with SRE team to identify issues to increase the stability and performance of our private computing service

Your qualification

• BS/MS in Computer Science, or related majors
• Experience with Python or C++ development
• Experience with modern standard of JavaScript development, with frameworks such as Node.js/npm, Vue.js, React.js, etc
• Experience with web frameworks such as Flask, Django 
• Experience with cloud services, such as AWS
• Good understanding of containers, build systems, and infrastructure automation
• Passionate about discovering drawbacks of existing systems and working with users to improve the experiences

Will be a plus

• Experience with 3D Graphics (WebGL, OpenGL, three.js)
• Industry experience of building autonomous vehicle onboard visualization system
• Proficient with Vue.js

What we offer

• 100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for you and your family
• Work visa sponsorship available
• Relocation assistance available
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner served every day
• Full kitchens on every floor with unlimited snacks, drinks, special treats, fruits, meals, and more
• Stock options / equity Gym membership reimbursement
• Monthly team building budget
• Learning/education budget
• Employer-paid life insurance
• Employer-paid long and short disability