Staff Embedded Software Engineer

About the company

• Partner company working at the intersection of embedded software, virtualization, and automotive technology.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance the user-space runtime enabling production embedded firmware to run on host machines.
• Integrate ECU firmware with modeled libraries and peripheral interfaces (GPIO, CAN, LIN, PWM, watchdogs, ADC/DAC).
• Develop functional hardware and peripheral models in C or Python.
• Own build scripts, toolchains, and configurations for host-executable binaries and target microcontroller images.
• Extend HIL testing frameworks and Pytest suites for virtual configurations.
• Investigate discrepancies using low-level debugging tools such as GDB.
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor colleagues.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on embedded firmware development, including RTOS porting/modification.
• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Expert-level C, strong C++, production-quality Python.
• Deep RTOS fundamentals and mapping to POSIX user-space primitives.
• Proficiency with GDB and hardware/protocol analyzers.
• Multithreaded and multicore programming knowledge.
• Experience with CAN, LIN, Ethernet, SocketCAN.
• Hands-on ownership of Bazel or comparable build systems and cross-compilation toolchains.
• Preferred: QEMU, Renode, MISRA/CERT, DoIP, SOME/IP, Synopsys Virtualizer.

Conditions

• Annual base salary $137,300–$181,890.
• Annual performance bonus target 15% of base salary.
• Equity participation (RSUs).
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• Hybrid work environment (Vancouver, Irvine, Palo Alto).