Staff Software Engineer, Middleware

Rivian • Palo Alto, CA

448d • $206,000 - $206,000

About The Position

The Staff Software Engineer, Middleware at Rivian will focus on developing safety-critical self-driving middleware software. This role involves designing, developing, and deploying software that supports essential self-driving features, ensuring robust and reliable solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• B.S. / M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience developing production-grade software from requirements gathering
• Strong C++ programming skills
• Familiarity with at least one scripting language (for example Bash, Lua, Python)
• Experience in automotive or robotics software development
• Experience in software development for x86_64 and ARM architectures
• Experience working on heterogeneous systems with various types of hardware accelerators (GPU, ISP, Encoder, etc.)
• Experience using and/or building libraries for hardware accelerators (CUDA, TensorRT, OpenCL, etc.)
• Experience contributing to middleware and/or building abstraction layers
• Familiar with OpenCV, OpenVX, or relevant acceleration frameworks in perception applications
• Experience contributing to software tooling (for code auto-generation, test automation, fault injection, etc.)
• Good team player with great communication skills to drive cross-functional efforts in a fast-paced development environment
• Passionately motivated to take ideas from R&D phase to a product
• Software Development life cycle experience: from requirements gathering through to implementation and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy software within hardware abstraction middleware to enable safety-critical self-driving features
• Develop software working on Linux as well as real-time operating systems (QNX, FreeRTOS, etc.)
• Develop software working on a distributed and heterogeneous system (multiple processors/HW engines)
• Develop necessary tools to support development, debugging, and testing
• Assist in software-design and code reviews while assisting other developers on technical issues, design choices, and decision making
• Analysis of requirements, architecture, design, development, code review, quality assurance, and deployment of entire software engineering life cycle
• Coordinate with application development and cross-functional teams to enable and support middleware integration

Benefits

• Robust medical/Rx, dental and vision insurance packages for full-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26
• Coverage effective on the first day of employment
• Rivian covers most of the premiums

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree