Principal Engineer, Autonomy Interface Software

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead software strategy for new technology and highly complex features for AV Integrity Platform development, focusing on sensing, health monitoring, and abstraction layers.
• Define a technical vision and roadmap for mission-critical parts of AVIP development.
• Work across organizations to ensure coherent architecture across the full stack and solve relevant problems.
• Maintain alignment between senior leadership and engineering teams through effective executive communication.
• Maintain high-quality standards in projects from inception and champion quality improvements through better technical practices.
• Collaborate with other teams to define system-level architecture and implementation strategies.
• Initiate large projects with complex architecture, breaking them into logical components for effective utilization.
• Improve and deliver reliable software through requirements generation, continuous integration, automated testing, issue tracking, and code reviews.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to Senior and Staff engineers, supporting their technical development and career progression.
• Lead large initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, driving impact analysis and ensuring alignment with architectural roadmaps.
• Drive architecture standards, patterns, and principles.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics & Communication, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Embedded Software development and launching quality software into production.
• Demonstrated successful technical leadership in software development teams within complex system environments.
• Experience with safety-critical development and testing in regulated environments such as FDA, FAA, Automotive, or Aerospace.
• Experience with real-time operating systems or middleware.
• Proficiency with C++11 or later.

Nice to Have

• Experience developing on and for embedded Linux / POSIX systems.
• Experience applying and mentoring team members on software best practices.
• Experience with ROS or other robotics middleware platforms.
• Experience with other languages: C, Python, Bash, Go.
• Experience with embedded build systems such as buildroot or yocto.

Qualifications

• Educational background with a Bachelor's degree or higher in relevant engineering or technical fields.

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range of $225,000-$344,700, with actual offer based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus potential through incentive pay based on company, job level, and individual performance.
• Relocation benefits may be available.
• Support for work-life balance and well-being from day one.