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Staff / Principal Embedded Engineer - Vehicle Computing

James Consultancy Services , LLC

Mountain View, CA • 9/24/2026

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

We are looking for a Staff / Principal Engineer to architect and lead the design of the vehicle compute and

networking stack the modular, scalable interface between autonomy software and the underlying hardware

platforms. You will own the technical roadmap for hardware health monitoring and fleet-wide performance

optimization, set the engineering standards that keep our platforms fast and dependable, and provide deep

technical oversight across software, hardware, and systems teams.

This is a hands-on leadership position. You will still be in the code and on the bench for the hardest problems

from Linux kernel tuning to multi-layer networking while mentoring senior engineers and driving

architectural decisions that scale across the fleet.

What You'll Do

• Architect and lead the design of the vehicle compute and networking stack, ensuring a modular, scalable interface between autonomy software and hardware platforms.

• Drive the technical roadmap for hardware health monitoring and fleet-wide performance optimization.

• Lead cross-functional integration of new sensors and embedded devices, and define standards for low-latency data interfaces.

• Establish engineering standards for Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing and automated performance

profiling.

• Provide technical oversight on complex system-level issues spanning Linux kernel tuning, high-

performance C++, and multi-layer networking (OSI Layers 1–4).

• Define the architecture for on-target diagnostics and self-test CPU, communication, and memory load

generation, power-on self-tests, controlled shutdown/sleep sequences, voltage-fault detection with safe-

state entry, and memory/logic BIST and set standards for how these are triggered, monitored, and

reported across ECUs.

• Establish standards for communication-bus health and error monitoring across CAN and Ethernet,

including link-integrity, cable-fault, and signal-integrity detection, with fleet-level logging and reporting.

• Staff / Principal Engineer, Vehicle Compute & Networking •

• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar for design, code quality, and system reliability across teams.

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including leading large-scale architecture at the

hardware/software interface.

• Expert-level C++ for high-performance, thread-safe, memory-efficient Linux systems.

• 5+ years of system-level development: Linux networking stacks, performance profiling, and hardware

bring-up.

• Deep command of networking protocols across the stack low-level (CAN, UDP, TCP) and high-level

(gRPC, RTP, HTTP).

• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership across software, hardware, and systems teams, with a track

record of shipping complex platforms.

• Strong systems-debugging instincts the ability to reason across the boundary from application code

down to kernel, driver, and hardware behavior.

Nice to Have

• Experience with autonomy sensors lidar, radar, and camera and their integration into low-latency

data pipelines.

• Time-Sensitive Networking protocols (PTP / gPTP) and Ethernet switching.

• Functional safety frameworks such as ISO 26262.

• Heterogeneous compute performance optimization across CPU, GPU, and accelerators.

• Networking certifications.

• Experience building distributed fleet health-monitoring frameworks.

\nCompany Description

Start-up building the next generation of American power electronics.

Company Description

Start-up building the next generation of American power electronics.