About the Team
Maps are a foundation of Gatik’s autonomy stack, supporting localization, perception, prediction, planning, and simulation. The Map Infrastructure team builds the systems that turn fleet sensor data into accurate, versioned, validated maps and deliver them reliably to every truck and every simulation run. Because Gatik grows by launching new customer routes, how fast and safely we can map, validate, and deploy a new route directly shapes how fast the business scales.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer on Map Infrastructure, you’ll design and build the pipelines, storage, services, and tools behind Gatik’s maps, from raw sensor logs to the map data our trucks load on the road. You’ll work closely with localization, autonomy, simulation, and operations teams to make map creation faster, map quality measurable, and map updates safe to ship.
What You’ll Do
Build map creation pipelines. Design and scale pipelines that process lidar, camera, and GNSS/IMU data from the fleet into high-definition maps, including alignment, semantic layer generation, and automated and human-in-the-loop labeling.
Speed up route onboarding. Reduce the time and cost to map, validate, and deploy new customer routes and hubs through automation, better tooling, and clear process.
Own map storage and versioning. Build the geospatial data platform that stores map data with versioning, provenance, and clear schemas and data contracts, so every truck and simulation run can trace exactly which map it used.
Deliver maps to the vehicle. Build reliable, efficient services that package, compress, and distribute map updates to the fleet, with safe rollout, rollback, and compatibility guarantees for onboard software.
Detect and manage map change. Build systems that use fleet data to detect real-world changes such as construction, lane changes, and new signage, and route them into fast, safe map updates.
Make map quality measurable. Define and implement map quality metrics and automated validation checks for geometry, topology, semantics, and localization performance, and gate releases on them.
Build tools people love. Develop map visualization, editing, review, and QA tools that make it fast for engineers and operators to inspect, correct, and approve map data.
Connect maps to simulation and ML. Make map data easy to consume in simulation, scenario generation, and ML training pipelines, in partnership with the simulation and Scalable ML teams.
Raise the engineering bar. Champion clean interfaces, testing, code review, observability, and fast, dependable CI across map systems, and help root-cause and prevent map-related incidents.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Geomatics, or a related field and 5+ years of relevant industry experience (or a Master’s degree and 3+ years).
Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or C++, including designing modular, maintainable, well-tested systems in a shared codebase.
Experience building large-scale data pipelines and distributed processing systems, using tools such as Spark, Ray, Beam, or similar, on cloud infrastructure.
Experience working with geospatial data, including coordinate systems and projections, spatial indexing (such as S2 or H3), and geospatial databases or libraries (such as PostGIS, GDAL, or Shapely).
Experience designing data storage, versioning, and serving systems with clear schemas and APIs (for example, Protobuf or similar).
Clear communication and the ability to work effectively with autonomy, simulation, and operations teams.
Salary Range: $180,000 - $260,000
More about Gatik
Founded in 2017, Gatik has grown into a commercial force in autonomous freight, operating trucks daily in live customer networks across the United States and Canada. We're headquartered in Santa Clara, California, but our impact is felt on the roads and in the supply chains that keep essential goods moving for some of the biggest companies in North America.
Our trucks do some of the most demanding work in freight, running high-frequency, time-sensitive routes between distribution centers and stores, where reliability matters every single day. For our customers, that means more capacity, better service and products arriving where they need to be, when they need to be there.
Behind it all is AI-first technology built from the ground up for autonomous trucking, capable of navigating highways and surface streets and tackling the complexity of real-world logistics at scale.
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Recent media coverage
TechCrunch: Self-driving truck startup Gatik raises $200M following PepsiCo deal
Reuters: Gatik secures $200 million in funding as autonomous freight market accelerates
Bloomberg: Driverless Trucks Can Save Lives on America's Roads
PepsiCo website: PepsiCo and Gatik announce multi-year agreement to deploy autonomous freight in North America
Wall Street Journal: Driverless Trucks Are Here - and They’re Delivering Bags of Doritos
CBS News: Pepsi deploys self-driving delivery trucks
Bloomberg: Autonomous Trucking Firm Gatik Inks Contracts Worth $600 Million
Forbes: Hundreds’ Of Gatik Robot Delivery Trucks Headed For U.S. Roads
CNBC-TV18: No more test runs: Gatik says driverless trucks are now a real, money-making business
Forbes: Gatik And Loblaw Announce Largest Commercial Deployment Of AV Trucks
Taking Care of Our Team
At Gatik, we connect people of extraordinary talent and experience to an opportunity to create a more resilient supply chain and contribute to our environment’s sustainability. We are diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives yet united by a bold vision and shared commitment to our values. Our culture emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect and agility.
We at Gatik strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that together we can do great things. We are committed to an inclusive and diverse team. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any legally protected status.
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