Staff / Principal Embedded Engineer - Vehicle Computing

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff / Principal Engineer to architect and lead the design of the vehicle compute and

networking stack — the modular, scalable interface between autonomy software and the underlying hardware

platforms. You will own the technical roadmap for hardware health monitoring and fleet-wide performance

optimization, set the engineering standards that keep our platforms fast and dependable, and provide deep

technical oversight across software, hardware, and systems teams.

This is a hands-on leadership position. You will still be in the code and on the bench for the hardest problems

— from Linux kernel tuning to multi-layer networking — while mentoring senior engineers and driving

architectural decisions that scale across the fleet.

What You'll Do

• Architect and lead the design of the vehicle compute and networking stack, ensuring a modular, scalable interface between autonomy software and hardware platforms.

• Drive the technical roadmap for hardware health monitoring and fleet-wide performance optimization.

• Lead cross-functional integration of new sensors and embedded devices, and define standards for low-latency data interfaces.

• Establish engineering standards for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing and automated performance

profiling.

• Provide technical oversight on complex system-level issues spanning Linux kernel tuning, high-

performance C++, and multi-layer networking (OSI Layers 1–4).

• Define the architecture for on-target diagnostics and self-test — CPU, communication, and memory load

generation, power-on self-tests, controlled shutdown/sleep sequences, voltage-fault detection with safe-

state entry, and memory/logic BIST — and set standards for how these are triggered, monitored, and

reported across ECUs.

• Establish standards for communication-bus health and error monitoring across CAN and Ethernet,

including link-integrity, cable-fault, and signal-integrity detection, with fleet-level logging and reporting.

• Staff / Principal Engineer, Vehicle Compute & Networking •

• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar for design, code quality, and system reliability across teams.

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including leading large-scale architecture at the

hardware/software interface.

• Expert-level C++ for high-performance, thread-safe, memory-efficient Linux systems.

• 5+ years of system-level development: Linux networking stacks, performance profiling, and hardware

bring-up.

• Deep command of networking protocols across the stack — low-level (CAN, UDP, TCP) and high-level

(gRPC, RTP,

• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership across software, hardware, and systems teams, with a track

record of shipping complex platforms.

• Strong systems-debugging instincts — the ability to reason across the boundary from application code

down to kernel, driver, and hardware behavior.

Nice to Have

• Experience with autonomy sensors — lidar, radar, and camera — and their integration into low-latency

data pipelines.

• Time-Sensitive Networking protocols (PTP / gPTP) and Ethernet switching.

• Functional safety frameworks such as ISO 26262.

• Heterogeneous compute performance optimization across CPU, GPU, and accelerators.

• Networking certifications.

• Experience building distributed fleet health-monitoring frameworks.

Start-up building the next generation of American power electronics.

Company Description

Start-up building the next generation of American power electronics.