Senior Software Engineer, Roboticist

Mission Summary

The Platform Infrastructure Embedded Software team designs and develops high quality software to leverage embedded compute platforms for autonomy stack development and to bolster the safety critical applications on the Motional Vehicle platforms. We are a team of engineers who bring a broad experience in software development and leverage this to develop software which pushes the boundaries of what has been achieved in the autonomous vehicle safety space.

What You'll Be Doing:

• 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 AV platforms
• Designing test harnesses for 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 working on C++ Software Infrastructure 
• 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 software architecture

What We're Looking For:

• 5+ years of professional experience in multi-threaded C++ software development
• 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 working on asynchronous, functional systems
• Experience writing software for Robotic/ AV platforms in C and C++.
• Experience with TDD - unit tests and integration tests.
• Experience writing software in Python and experience doing automation with shell scripting.
• Previous development experience with Robotic/AV software stacks and middleware (eg: ROS, DDS or similar)

Bonus Points (not required):

• Experience working with ARM Cortex MCUs or Microprocessors
• Experience working on embedded Linux / RTOSs.
• Experience with optimizing sensor and ML accelerator pipelines and deploying them on various embedded processors. 
• Experience with debugging on embedded platforms.
• Experience working with networks (Ethernet, CAN etc.) and the common networking protocols.
• Experience working with large data pipelines, and platforms that require deterministic execution.
• Experience using inter-system communication protocols such as I2C and SPI
• Experience working with FGPAs and GPUs.
• Experience working directly with the Linux kernel or Device Drivers.
• Experience working with RTOSs such as FreeRTOS, ThreadX or PreemptRT.
• Experience with Simulation and Code Generation, and knowing when their use is appropriate.

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

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