Staff Embedded Software Engineer

About the role

About Stack:

Stack is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. Stack's autonomous technology incorporates cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and cloud technologies, empowering us to create innovative solutions that address the needs and challenges of the dynamic trucking transportation industry. With decades of experience creating and deploying real world systems for demanding environments, the Stack team is dedicated to developing an autonomous solution ecosystem tailored to the trucking industry's unique demands.

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About the Role:

The firmware team is responsible for developing and maintaining the embedded software that bridges hardware and high-level applications in the Stack AV autonomous vehicle system. Our work ensures that sensors, actuators, and compute platforms operate reliably, and in real-time, forming the foundation of safe and intelligent trucking.

As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and validation of software for our safety-critical embedded platform. You will architect firmware that interfaces directly with sensors, compute modules and the base vehicle, ensuring deterministic and safe behavior.

Responsibilities:

- Develop embedded software architectures - develop scalable, modular, and real-time embedded systems for our autonomous vehicle platform.

- Mentor and guide team members - provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, and lead by example.

- Ensure compliance with safety standards - apply safety guidelines to build safety-critical software with robust fault handling.

- Coordinate tasks amongst team members to achieve on time delivery.

- Support vehicle testing and field deployments - diagnose and resolve embedded software issues in real-world scenarios.

Qualifications:

- Expert in C++ for embedded systems development for safety critical systems.

- Strong understanding of RTOS concepts / programming (e.g. FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS).

- Experience with safety-critical standards such as ISO 26262, DO-178C, IEC 61508, IEC 62304 or similar.

- Provide technical leadership in a small team.

- Hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and BSP development.

- Multithreaded and real-time software design.

- Good understanding of CAN and ethernet communication protocols, ideally in an automotive context.

- Has taken at least one product through to production, including maintaining the product with paying customers.

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