Staff Embedded Software Engineer

Newark, CA, United States

Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility

At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.

We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design – where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.

Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we're providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

Staff Embedded Software Engineer

We are seeking a senior staff embedded software developer to help grow our vehicle connectivity team, working on embedded Linux technologies to achieve critical vehicle functions like network communication, interfaces, internet connectivity, telemetry, over-the-air software updates. These technologies are being pioneered in-house at Lucid and are at the cutting edge.

Our ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches their work with determination. The individual will show excellence in their respective fields, to learn quickly and strive for perfection within a fast-paced development environment.

Role Responsibilities:

Design and develop robust software platform & features for Telematics Control Unit.

Writing implementation, unit test, component test and documentation using team technology stack based on C/C++, shell scripting & Python.

Commitment and ownership to get software done with the explicit testing implemented to deliver on time and protect quality & scalability.

Understanding of delivering scalable tested & documented software.

Contributing to ideation sessions, requirements, design & code reviews.

Collaborate on defining software architecture in a multi-core processor in Linux.

Collaborate with system engineering to provide a strong requirement specification.

Collaborate on design & development of software test plan.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent technology field.

Fluent in OOP, data structures and algorithms.

5+ years of industry experience with C/C++ development in embedded Linux platforms

Strong problem-solving medal belt and debugging tricks; proficiency using advanced debugging techniques and tools.

Solid understanding of C/C++ application memory and CPU profiling, performance analysis and optimization

Strong social engineering – bringing deliveries as a team.

Comfortable using Git and following solid development processes.

Experience with networking protocols such as TCP/UDP, MQTT, REST, RPC, DBUS.

Sound knowledge of Linux operating system internals for application development.

Strong understanding of IPC Mechanisms – Sockets, Message Queues, Shared Memory, Signal handling, D-BUS.

Preferred Qualifications:

MS degree or higher education in Computer Science or equivalent technology field.

Experience with secure embedded software functionality.

Automotive software development experience.

Knowledge on DevOps, Docker, Jenkins for embedded development.

YOCTO Linux experience.

Familiar with Agile development processes

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