Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Glydways is developing an autonomous, carbon-neutral public transit system using standardized vehicles on dedicated pathways. The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will own critical firmware domains, lead cross-functional embedded projects, and develop reliable, safety-critical vehicle software across hardware and platform subsystems.
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, build, and test production vehicle firmware for safety-critical systems
- Develop and optimize applications in RTOS environments, tuning for reliability, latency, throughput, memory footprint, and power on resource-constrained platforms
- Own and evolve the communication architecture between MCUs, sensors, and main compute, across both standard and custom protocols (SPI, UART, I2C, CAN, TCP/UDP, and more)
- Lead bring-up and debugging for new boards and SoCs—bootloaders, drivers, and low-level diagnostics—partnering with electrical engineers and software developers to take new sensor and compute platforms from prototype to production
- Define and build automated testing frameworks and harnesses at the unit, integration, and system levels alongside test and platform engineers
- Mentor other embedded engineers, give thorough code reviews, and help set engineering standards, tools, and best practices across the team
Skills
- Expert-level C and/or C++ for embedded systems
- Strong command of communication protocols, from low level (SPI, UART, I2C, CAN) to higher level (TCP/UDP)
- Experience developing on RTOS environments (e.g., PX5 or other POSIX/pthreads-based real-time OSes such as embedded Linux with pthreads, QNX, VxWorks, or RTEMS)
- Experience with MCU bootloaders, device drivers, and new board or SoC bring-up
- Experience deploying firmware to multi-device systems or vehicles in a power-safe, fault-tolerant way
- Demonstrated speed and size optimization for resource-constrained platforms
- Solid understanding of the embedded software development life cycle—version control, code review, CI, and automated testing
- Typically 7+ years developing embedded software for production systems, including substantial work on safety-critical or highly reliable platforms (automotive, aerospace, medical, industrial, robotics, etc.)
- Experience with safety-critical systems and processes (e.g., ISO 26262 or similar standards)
- Experience in automotive and/or transit domains
- Experience with automotive-grade safety MCUs — ideally the NXP S32K3 family, or comparable lockstep/ASIL-rated parts (e.g., Infineon AURIX, TI TMS570)
- Familiarity with kernel internals and low-level OS concepts
- Experience with deterministic timing and networking, such as NTP, PTP, or time-sensitive networking (TSN)
- Experience with CAN tooling and DBC-based workflows
- Comfort with electronics test equipment and hardware debugging (multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, etc.)
- Scripting experience (e.g., Python) for test automation and tooling
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