Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Nuro•Mountain View, CA

6d•$176,400 - $264,000

About The Position

Nuro is seeking a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join their Embedded Software Engineering team. This role involves building software for safety-critical embedded controllers that connect the Nuro Driver™ to vehicles, commanding steering, braking, and propulsion, managing power, monitoring motion, and ensuring safe states. The engineer will work across the full stack of multicore automotive microcontrollers, from RTOS and drivers to middleware and application components. Responsibilities include bringing up the Nuro Driver™ on new vehicle platforms, collaborating with OEM and supplier engineers, and seeing code drive real vehicles on public roads. The company is hiring across levels, from those with a few years of experience to those who have shipped a production automotive launch.

Requirements

B.S. or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a closely related field.
3+ years of industry experience developing embedded software in C, including work on a real-time operating system.
Solid computer science fundamentals: data structures, concurrency and algorithm design.
Working knowledge of microcontroller internals and peripherals, with depth in at least one of device driver development, CAN or automotive Ethernet, bootloaders and software update, embedded security, or vehicle-level integration and test.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, clear written and spoken communication, and a track record of working well with engineers from other disciplines.
Comfortable at the bench with debug probes, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and CAN tools. You enjoy finding out why hardware and software disagree.

Nice To Haves

5+ years of embedded development in the automotive or autonomous vehicle industry, including a production launch.
Hands-on functional safety experience with ISO 26262, or safety-critical development in another regulated industry such as DO-178C or IEC 62304.
Experience with Infineon AURIX TC3xx, SafeRTOS or FreeRTOS, or AUTOSAR Classic base software such as MCAL and communication stacks.
Vehicle network integration experience: DBC and ARXML, UDS diagnostics, E2E protection, time synchronization.
Knowledge of vehicle functions, vehicle dynamics or control theory.

Responsibilities

Design, implement and test embedded C software for safety-critical multicore automotive microcontrollers, spanning base software such as RTOS, device drivers, scheduling and bootloader, middleware such as inter-component messaging and end-to-end protection, and application components such as actuator interface, body controls, power management and fault management.
Integrate the Nuro Driver™ with new vehicle platforms: define and implement CAN and Ethernet interfaces with OEM ECUs, adapt actuator and body-control interfaces, and validate them on bench and in vehicle.
Take part in hands-on device and vehicle bring-up, prototyping and debugging on multiple vehicle platforms, from first power-on to autonomous driving.
Build and maintain the team's verification infrastructure: unit tests, hardware-in-the-loop benches and vehicle test procedures.
Work within an ISO 26262 development process: define software requirements from system safety requirements, then implement and verify them with full traceability.
Collaborate daily with systems, safety, hardware, controls and autonomy engineers, and with OEM and supplier partners, from definition through verification.