Pittsburgh Robotics Network · 5 hours ago
Staff Embedded Software Engineer
Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. They are seeking a Staff Embedded Software Engineer to design and develop infrastructure software for self-driving vehicles, while providing technical mentorship and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)AssociationNon ProfitRobotics
Responsibilities
Design and develop infrastructure software on various hardware platforms for applications such as vision processing, radar systems, safety monitoring, etc., to be run on self-driving vehicles
Design test harnesses for embedded software components and full systems
Provide technical mentorship to engineers
Proactively work with cross-functional engineering teams to solve complex and interesting problems
Qualification
Required
Experience with creating detailed requirements from use cases
Ability to lead a technical initiative, including breaking down work and guiding other engineers through execution
Experience writing software for embedded platforms in C and C++
Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Experience working on embedded Linux / RTOSs
Experience working with networks (Ethernet, CAN etc.) and the common networking protocols
Experience with debugging on embedded platforms
Experience writing software in Python and experience doing automation with shell scripting
Experience working with ARM Cortex MCUs or Microprocessors
Preferred
Experience working with large data pipelines, and platforms that require deterministic execution
Experience using inter-system communication protocols such as I2C and SPI
Experience deploying Machine Learning models
Experience working with GPUs
Experience working directly with the Linux kernel or Device Drivers
Experience with Simulation and Code Generation, and knowing when their use is appropriate
Experience working with Bazel
Experience integrating various sensors, including Cameras, IMUs, Radars, LIDARs
Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and/or other ML frameworks
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401k with a company match
Health saving accounts
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Company
Pittsburgh Robotics Network
An organization dedicated to the growth and promotion of Pittsburgh's robotics companies and research institutions
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$0.75MKey Investors
Appalachian Regional Commission
2024-10-16Grant· $0.75M
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