Staff Embedded Software Engineer
Job Description
Mission Summary:
Motional's onboard autonomous driving system team works at the intersection of software engineering, machine learning, sensors, and hardware compute platforms to evolve Motional's next-generation on-board autonomous driving system. As part of this team, the High Performance Compute Platform team is responsible for Motional's current and next-generation onboard autonomous driving system. If you are a software engineer and love the idea of working on embedded AI hardware and software compute systems to create the next generation of autonomous vehicles, we would love to talk with you. We are hiring in a range of levels, from graduate engineers to Staff engineers.
What You'll Be Doing:
- 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.
What We're Looking For:
- 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++.
- 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.
Bonus Points (not required):
- 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.
Company Overview:
Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We're driven by something more.
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.
Company Info:
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.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.