Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Mission Summary 

The Infrastructure organization designs and develops high quality embedded software running on various compute platforms enabling robust autonomy stack execution. Our embedded software components conform to state of the art automotive safety standards. We are a highly skilled engineering team deploying complex software architectures that redefine autonomous vehicle technology performance.

We are looking for embedded software engineers ready to solve hard problems and lead the  development of complex safety-critical embedded software solutions.

The Motional Pittsburgh office is located in the Hazelwood Green development, a culmination of the city’s goal of restoring an economic driver to the neighborhood in a thoughtful, inclusive, and sustainable way. With views along the Monongahela river, the Pittsburgh office is in the heart of this state of the art development.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Your expertise will help the team in designing and developing complex safety critical embedded software components supporting a diverse set of autonomous self-driving applications.
• You will contribute directly to key technical areas such as hardware safety monitoring, drive-by-wire, vision processing, and/or radar processing systems.
• You will have the opportunity to learn and advance your technical skills through designing and developing robust firmware device drivers and related operating system kernel libraries.
• You will achieve best in class software quality by leveraging HIL benches and designing clever embedded software component test harnesses proving system requirements are met.
• You will grow your leadership skills further by providing technical mentorship to software team members.
• You will ensure robust software component performance by proactively supporting the extended Motional team post software delivery.

What We're Looking For:

BS or MS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent knowledge and related work experience. 5-7+ years experience (10+ preferred) working with:

• A diverse set of microcontrollers or microprocessors (e.g. Aurix Tricore, ARM).
• Embedded network protocols like Ethernet, CAN, CAN-FD, and LIN.
• Serial communication protocols such as UART, I2C, and SPI.
• Writing software for embedded platforms in C and/or C++.
• A test driven development (TDD) environment, writing unit and integration tests.
• Automotive embedded RTOS software.
• Software build systems like Bazel, CMake, and/or Make.
• Real-time task execution and scheduling principles. 
• Debugging approaches, methods, and tools for embedded systems.
• Static analysis (e.g. cppcheck, Klocwork, Coverity, PCLint) and dynamic analysis (e.g. clang sanitizers, valgrind) tools to ensure code quality and MISRA compliance.
• Software development life cycle and the V development model.
• Creating detailed safety critical software requirements.
• Creating high level and detailed software architectures and designs.

Along with 5+ years embedded software product leadership experience:

• With a proven track record of delivering high quality embedded software releases.
• Developing software work breakdown structures meeting project deadlines.
• Ability to mentor and guide more junior software engineers through the development phases.

Bonus Points (not required) for experience working with:

• Embedded Linux kernel and/or Linux device drivers.
• Embedded RTOSs such as AUTOSAR, FreeRTOS, VxWorks,ThreadX or PreemptRT.
• Embedded security hardware such as trusted platform modules, hardware security modules and the like.
• Writing Python software supporting HIL automation testing via shell scripting.
• Safety certification standards (i.e. ISO 26262, IEC 61508, EN 5012X, DO-178B/C).
• FGPA and GPU embedded hardware and software.
• Developing and deploying machine learning models.
• Simulation and autocode generation, with knowledge on proper usage.
• Large data pipelines requiring deterministic execution.

Why you should join us:

It wasn’t that long ago that autonomous driving was merely a dream. Today the technology behind autonomous vehicles has shown great promise to revolutionize personal transportation. To advance the technology from what we have today to what is needed for mass deployment, reductions in hardware and software costs are paramount. This is where you come in. As a member of the Infrastructure organization, you will design and develop high quality software bringing these cost competitive embedded compute platforms to market. Our mission is to facilitate robust autonomous vehicle driving, meeting the safety critical requirements needed for use in Motional vehicles. We want you to join our highly skilled team,

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors including but not limited to specific skills, experience and expertise, role location, certifications, licenses, and business needs. The estimated compensation range listed in this job posting reflects base salary only. This role may include additional forms of compensation such as a bonus or company equity. The recruiter assigned to this role can share more information about the specific compensation and benefit details associated with this role during the hiring process. 

Candidates for certain positions are eligible to participate in Motional’s benefits program. Motional’s benefits include but are not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401k with a company match, health saving accounts, life insurance, pet insurance, and more.

Salary Range$153,000—$207,000 USD

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.  

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit  www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

 

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