Lead the design and architecture of major safety-rated and non-safety-rated firmware subsystems in Rust on heterogeneous multi-core platforms, where real-time safety code and Linux services coexist on the same chip.
Set technical direction across the full sensor processing pipeline (driver integration, frame acquisition, point cloud generation, collision detection) and influence peer hardware, safety, and navigation teams.
Own the team's hardest end-to-end problems, framing solutions where the business problem is known but the technical strategy is not.
Drive perception features that let robots detect and respond to obstacles under IEC 61508 certification, ensuring data integrity through black-channel diagnostics.
Raise the technical bar through design and code reviews, and mentor engineers so the team is more reliable because of your presence but does not require it.
Produce direction-setting design documents and safety analysis artifacts that meet the rigor of third-party certification and witness testing.
Lead debugging and root-cause analysis end-to-end, from raw sensor data to safety responses, on real robots at test facilities and in production.
Leverage AI coding assistants as a force multiplier and lead the team to do the same.
A day in the life
No two days are the same. You might spend the morning aligning peer teams around a subsystem architecture in a design review, then head to the test floor after lunch to lead a cross-functional debug with electrical and QA engineers, determining whether an issue is firmware, hardware, or a faulty sensor. That afternoon you profile a pipeline to close a latency budget, then pair with another engineer to unblock their design. Our engineers take complete ownership (from interrupt handlers to CI/CD pipelines to on-site data collection) and frequently enter new areas to meet our customers' needs. As a senior engineer, you help chart where the team goes next.
About the team
The Safety Perception team is a group of passionate embedded software engineers who apply advances in robotics and sensor processing to real-world safety challenges. We write embedded Rust on platforms where correctness is not optional, and we own the full stack: from low-level driver integration to system APIs to the test infrastructure that proves our firmware works. We take our responsibility for safety seriously while challenging ourselves to ship the right product at the performance we need. We pay attention to the details so others do not have to, making systems intuitive enough that safety does not need a second thought.
6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
6+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Proficiency in embedded development in Rust; alternatively, strong modern C/C++ embedded experience with demonstrated willingness and ability to work in Rust
6+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Experience developing RTOS applications or bare-metal real-time systems
Experience with heterogeneous multi-core platforms (e.g., ARM Cortex-A + Cortex-R/M + GPUs)
Experience with general troubleshooting and debugging of hardware
Experience writing low-level drivers (V4L2, I2C, SPI, DMA)
Experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, or similar RPC/serialization frameworks
Familiarity developing embedded software in a safety-standards-controlled environment such as IEC 61508 or ISO 26262
Working knowledge of 3D geometry, coordinate transforms, or point cloud processing
Experience with robotics middleware (ROS/ROS2) or visualization tools (Foxglove, RViz)
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