About the Company
At Torc, we have always believed that autonomous vehicle technology will transform how we travel, move freight, and do business.
A leader in autonomous driving since 2007, Torc has spent over a decade commercializing our solutions with experienced partners. Now a part of the Daimler family, we are focused solely on developing software for automated trucks to transform how the world moves freight.
Join us and catapult your career with the company that helped pioneer autonomous technology, and the first AV software company with the vision to partner directly with a truck manufacturer.
Meet The Team:
The Developer Tooling organization is focused on enabling and empowering developers by delivering highly efficient systems that enhance developer productivity across the engineering organization. We are looking for a seasoned leader that will bring new ideas, optimizations, and best practices for the entire software organization. As a director, you will work closely with managers and engineers to improve the processes that support the development of high-quality safety-critical software.
What You’ll Do:
- Oversee and drive the development and maintenance of build systems, CI/CD Pipelines, testing frameworks, and code analysis tools that support rapid experimentation while ensuring compliance, security, and traceability.
- Establish clear metrics and KPIs to measure the effectiveness and impact of developer tools and platforms on engineering performance and time to value delivery.
- Drive cross-functional initiatives to improve development workflows, identify bottlenecks, and deliver tooling solutions that scale with the organization
- Deliver platform abstractions and reusable frameworks that simplify access to distributed compute, model training environments, inference environments, target hardware environment, and observability tools.
- Lead and grow high performing teams of software engineers focused on internal tooling and developer enablement.
- Guide the team to set, track, and achieve goals aligned with the company-wide vision, roadmap, and initiatives.
- Identify future growth plan to support organizational needs and partner with People Operations and Talent Acquisition to lead organizational development and hiring.
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant engineering discipline
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience with at least 3-5 years in an engineering management or leadership role.
- Proven success leading teams that build and maintain internal developer platforms, CI/CD systems, and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Solid knowledge of modern software development practices including GitOps, DevSecOps, continuous integration and deployment.
- Familiarity with ML Tooling ecosystems (e.g. MLflow, Kubeflow, Sagemaker, Ray, W&B, etc.)
- Ability to communicate actionable insights using data to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Critical/logical thinking to identify problems and provide solutions to ensure efficiency, safety, and quality.
- Ability to effectively manage a team of managers and professionals and identify opportunities to grow and develop the team.
- Ability to evangelize best practices and promote consistent standards including test automation, observability, and performance metrics.
- Experience leading teams that work with cloud infrastructure at scale (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Bonus Points:
- Experience within the autonomous vehicle industry.
Perks of Being a Full-time Torc’r
Torc cares about our team members and we strive to provide benefits and resources to support their health, work/life balance, and future. Our culture is collaborative, energetic, and team focused. Torc offers:
- A competitive compensation package that includes a bonus component and stock options
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for full-time employees
- 401K plan with a 6% employer match
- Flexibility in schedule and generous paid vacation (available immediately after start date)
- Company-wide holiday office closures
- AD+D and Life Insurance
Hiring Range for Job Opening US Pay Range
$226,400—$271,700 USDAt Torc, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We celebrate the uniqueness of our Torc’rs and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, or disabilities.
Even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications listed for this opportunity, we encourage you to apply.
