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Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Aerovect

Aerovect

Software Engineering
South San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Sep 6, 2024

Who We Are

AeroVect is transforming ground handling with autonomy, redefining how airlines and ground service providers around the globe run day-to-day operations. We are a private company founded in 2020 and backed by top-tier venture capital investors in aviation and autonomous driving. Our customers include some of the world’s largest airlines and ground handling providers. For more information, visit www.aerovect.com.

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to join our fast paced team to design and maintain software between autonomy and hardware stack for our autonomous GSE. Ideal candidate possess a strong knowledge of low level systems of autonomous vehicles including different communication protocols, networking and operating system fundamentals.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy and maintain drive by wire systems

  • Work with vendors to integrate and maintain sensor drivers

  • Implement time synchronization for various onboard sensors

  • Develop a process to streamline new vehicle bringup

  • Design, deploy and maintain customized base operating systems with real-time constraints

  • Design, deploy and maintain network architecture for onboard sensors & actuators

  • Design, develop, deploy and maintain diagnostic/watchdog systems for the autonomy stack

  • Design, develop and maintain wireless/cellular architecture for the autonomous vehicle

  • Benchmark and select new generation of compute for the autonomous vehicles

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • 3 or more years of experience in development of autonomous systems

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Math, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or related field

  • Strong C/C++ (preferred) and problem solving skills

  • Proven experience in a Linux based Operating System, schedulers, real time kernels, time synchronization protocols (PTP, NTP etc), memory management, concurrency, memory allocation, file systems, networking (TCP, UDP etc)

  • Proven experience in working with various communication protocols (EtherCAT, CAN, I2C, SPI, UART, Serial etc)

  • Proven experience in writing and maintaining sensor drivers

  • Highly collaborative nature and exceptional communicator

Desired Qualifications

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Math, Robotics or a related field

  • Proven domain knowledge in integrating various sensors in to the autonomy stack

  • Proven experience in drafting and selecting requirements for onboard processors for the autonomous vehicles

  • In-Depth understanding of DDS frameworks like ROS/ROS2 or other networking middleware

  • Proven track record of system development and successful deployment of unmanned systems in existing or upcoming products

  • Mastery of Modern C++ (14 and beyond) and safety critical coding practices (MISRA and ISO 26262 compliance)

  • Experience working with various micro-controllers and single board computers