Stack AV is building autonomous truck systems backed by a heavy ML and systems engineering stack: C++, Python, PyTorch, Kafka, and Kubernetes for training and inference workloads. The hiring mix is 62% senior/staff engineers and 25% data specialists, reflecting the technical depth required for safety-critical autonomous systems. Active projects span real-time motion planning, long-range detection, and simulation-driven testing — all core to solving the latency, safety, and reliability challenges that dominate their pain-point list.
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Stack AV develops AI-powered autonomous systems for commercial trucking. Founded in 2023 and based in Pittsburgh, the company focuses on safety, reliability, and efficiency through advanced autonomous technology and machine learning. Their tech foundation includes low-level systems work (C++, FreeRTOS, CAN bus) paired with modern ML infrastructure (PyTorch, Ray, Spark, Iceberg) and real-time processing (Kafka, gRPC, WebSockets). The product roadmap centers on daily driving and testing of autonomous trucks, motion planning, long-range detection, and the infrastructure required to iterate ML models in resource-constrained, safety-critical environments.
C++, Python, PyTorch, Kafka, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, gRPC, and Spark. They also use FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, and CAN bus for embedded systems work, plus Ray and Iceberg for ML infrastructure.
Daily driving and testing of autonomous trucks, motion planning, long-range detection, autonomous system development, ML model infrastructure, simulation testing, and semantic search for multimodal sensor data.
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