Embedded Software Development Engineer

Number of employees

10000

United States, Texas, Austin, United States

Posted on: 2022-09-08

Category: emobility

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Intermediate

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Doing something different is never easy. It requires courage, optimism and grit. Core to our mission is building a team of adventurous individuals determined to make a positive impact on the world. This means challenging ourselves constantly. Stretching beyond the bounds of conventional thinking. Reframing old problems. Seeking new solutions. And operating comfortably in a space of uncertainty. While our backgrounds are diverse, our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. Do you like doing the impossible? We’d love to hear from you.

Rivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract. 

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations. 

As the Embedded Software Development Engineer at Rivian, you will develop platform software and firmware for our cutting-edge Autonomous Driving Platform. You will work closely with hardware engineers to bring up SoC, new boards, and ADAS systems. You will provide inputs to hardware architects on the development of custom silicon and system features. You will work closely with Application Software Teams to understand the overall ADAS software objectives to architect and specify the platform software and firmware requirements. You will develop platform software, security firmware and other embedded software to enable the hardware features, functional safety and security of the system.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 7+ years of related work experience or Master’s/PhD with 5+ years of related work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience developing and debugging embedded Linux or RTOS systems
  • 6+ years of experience in multi-threaded and concurrent programming with C/C++
  • Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithm design, complexity analysis, scalability and availability
  • Experience with professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, and continuous integration and testing.
  • Exhibits the right teamwork and qualities backed up with references

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Proficiency with boot loaders and software bring up on new hardware
  • Proficiency in understanding board schematics and device data sheets
  • Proficiency with the operation of common bus interfaces like I2C, SPI, and PCIe
  • Proficiency with the emulation and prototyping environment and IP/Software debugging.
  • Familiarity with device driver development and operation on Linux/QNX/FreeRTOS/Zephyr
  • Experience with architecting and implementing SoC security firmware is a plus, including Boot ROM, Trusted Execution Environment subsystem, secure key storage and key management, and secure OTP provisioning, etc.
  • Experience in embedded software design, cryptography, vehicle architecture, CAN Bus, Functional Safety, diagnostics and embedded device messaging is a plus.
  • Familiar with Git source control
  • Excellent documentation skills

Equal Opportunity

Rivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Rivian is committed to ensuring that our hiring process is accessible for persons with disabilities. If you have a disability or limitation, such as those covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires accommodations to assist you in the search and application process, please email us at [email protected].

Candidate Data Privacy

Rivian may collect, use and disclose your personal information or personal data (within the meaning of the applicable data protection laws) when you apply for employment and/or participate in our recruitment processes (“Candidate Personal Data”). This data includes contact, demographic, communications, educational, professional, employment, social media/website, network/device, recruiting system usage/interaction, security and preference information. Rivian may use your Candidate Personal Data for the purposes of (i) tracking interactions with our recruiting system; (ii) carrying out, analyzing and improving our application and recruitment process, including assessing you and your application and conducting employment, background and reference checks; (iii) establishing an employment relationship or entering into an employment contract with you; (iv) complying with our legal, regulatory and corporate governance obligations; (v) recordkeeping; (vi) ensuring network and information security and preventing fraud; and (vii) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law. 

Rivian may share your Candidate Personal Data with (i) internal personnel who have a need to know such information in order to perform their duties, including individuals on our People Team, Finance, Legal, and the team(s) with the position(s) for which you are applying; (ii) Rivian affiliates; and (iii) Rivian’s service providers, including providers of background checks, staffing services, and cloud services. 

Rivian may transfer or store internationally your Candidate Personal Data, including to or in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and in the cloud, and this data may be subject to the laws and accessible to the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities of such jurisdictions.  

 

Please note that we are currently not accepting applications from third party application services.

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