Principal Embedded Software Engineer

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Job Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing infrastructure software on various hardware platforms for applications such as Vision Processing, Radar systems, Safety monitoring etc., to be run on self-driving vehicles
• Designing firmware components such as device drivers and kernel libraries
• Develop software to accelerate machine learning models for deployment on Embedded Hardware platforms
• Designing test harnesses for embedded software components as well as full systems
• Providing technical mentorship to engineers
• Proactively supports the team with engineering support in their product area.
• Mentor a team of engineers comprising the Embedded Software team at Motional
• Set the vision and mission of the team, manage the team s planning and execution of work, and ensure organizational goals are being met
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define solutions to organizational challenges
• Contribute to the long-term autonomous vehicle embedded architecture

Job Qualifications:

• 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 TDD - unit tests and integration tests.
• Experience working on embedded Linux / RTOSs.
• Experience with optimizing sensor and ML accelerator pipelines and deploying them on various embedded processors.
• 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