Sr. Systems Performance Engineer

About the Company

Aurelius Systems is a VC backed defense tech startup building autonomous, edge deployed directed energy systems for counter-UAS. We build laser weapons to shoot down drones, scaling America's directed energy dominance with a small, high-output team of engineers and former military operators.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, performance, and latency budget of the full platform from sensing through actuation
• Perform kernel-level and driver-level coding across the software stack
• Profile and eliminate latency across CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O boundaries
• Develop and optimize CUDA kernels for high-throughput, low-latency execution
• Tune memory access patterns for bandwidth efficiency
• Make real-time architecture decisions across fire control and C2
• Design high-bandwidth sensor data ingestion and pipelines
• Provide technical direction and mentorship for a subteam of engineers
• Author architecture documentation and standards

Requirements

• 4+ years in real-time systems or robotics software engineering with real hardware
• Expert-level modern C++ (C++17/20)
• Driver-level and kernel-level coding experience
• CUDA kernel optimization expertise
• Deep understanding of GPU memory models
• Experience with ARM + Linux systems development
• Proficiency in performance optimization across CPU/GPU boundaries
• Knowledge of shared memory and lock-free architecture design
• Experience with high-throughput peripheral data ingestion (USB, PCIe, Ethernet)
• Expertise in multithreaded systems and concurrency optimization
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Jetson platform experience
• DMA and zero-copy pipeline design
• Video pipeline experience (OpenCV, GStreamer, Vimba/Pylon)
• Experience with CoaXPress, USB3 Vision, or high-speed camera systems
• Linux kernel contributions
• Prior experience leading a technical subteam or owning production architecture