Technical Lead for Embedded Automotive Platforms

4 weeks ago

Mountain View, Arkansas, United States Wayve Full time

About the Role

At Wayve, we're committed to creating a diverse, fair, and respectful culture that's inclusive of everyone based on their unique skills and perspectives. As the Technical Lead of the Embedded Automotive Platforms team, you'll be responsible for leading the creation of a software platform that interfaces with the automobile's embedded hardware. This includes developing abstractions and APIs that enable Wayve's software and robotics teams to deploy AV software efficiently. Your role involves understanding the capabilities and nuances of various deployment platforms and creating abstractions that minimize the need for Onboard Applications to be customized for each target platform.

Key Responsibilities

As the Technical Lead, you'll play a crucial role in advancing Wayve's AV technology. Your leadership will drive the efficiency, maintainability, and scalability of the embedded systems that underpin our autonomous vehicles. You'll be accountable for overseeing critical technical programs, ensuring robust platform development, and fostering innovation within your team. Your key responsibilities will include:

  • Technical Program Leadership: Lead key technical programs, ensuring timely delivery by managing requirements, technical risks, development strategy, milestones, and dependencies.
  • Platform Development: Oversee the creation and maintenance of an efficient, maintainable, and scalable embedded platform, enabling rapid development and deployment of AV applications.
  • Real-Time System Management: Ensure the effective operation of real-time applications on various platforms, optimizing data collection, storage, and edge machine learning inference.
  • Fault Tolerance and Diagnostics: Develop fault-tolerant software solutions with comprehensive diagnostics to resolve operational issues swiftly.
  • Performance Monitoring: Implement advanced system monitoring tools to enhance performance metrics and troubleshoot issues effectively.
  • Mentorship and Cultural Development: Provide mentorship, guide engineers in skill and career growth, and lead forums such as design reviews and architecture planning to promote engineering excellence.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

  • Proven Experience: Proven experience in embedded systems development, including in a technical leadership role, preferably in the automotive industry.
  • Expertise in Software Development: Strong background in developing software for embedded systems using high-performance system languages like C++ and/or Rust.
  • Strategic and Analytical Thinking: Ability to conceive and implement strategic technology projects aligned with both immediate and long-term business objectives.
  • Leadership and Collaboration Skills: Excellent leadership qualities, capable of leading cross-functional teams and projects. Strong ability to collaborate across divisions and effectively engage stakeholders.
  • Debugging Skills: Proficient in debugging performance issues, stack traces, core dumps, slow disk writes, high system load, memory bottlenecks, external device bottlenecks, and threading issues.
  • Technical Knowledge: Strong understanding of IPC middleware for high data throughput robotic applications, and experience with Linux, QNX, build systems, and user space device drivers.
  • Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Desirable Qualifications

While not essential, desirable qualifications include:

  • Expertise in Embedded Environments: Prior experience developing and deploying autonomous vehicle software on commercial automobiles.
  • Automotive Software: Knowledge of ASPICE, DriveOS, or AutoSAR.
  • Performance Tuning: Experience building embedded systems running on the NVIDIA Drive Platform and performance tuning with the QNX operating system.
  • Educational Background: A Master's degree or greater in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

About Wayve

At Wayve, we're passionate about creating autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

What We Offer

We offer a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships, and learning, and time spent working from home. We operate core working hours so you can determine the schedule that works best for you and your team.

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