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Owns the design, development, testing, and optimization of safety-critical vehicle firmware on resource-constrained platforms. Responsibilities include RTOS applications, communication architectures, bootloaders, device drivers, board and SoC bring-up, automated testing, debugging, and production deployment. The role leads cross-functional projects, mentors engineers, conducts code reviews, and establishes embedded engineering standards for reliable autonomous transit vehicles.

Develop and integrate autonomy software across vehicle hardware, track infrastructure, simulation, communications, safety systems, and onboard pipelines. Build interfaces, simulation metrics, data-processing tools, and safety-rated code; debug across the autonomy stack; support vehicle drive testing; and participate in design, planning, and code reviews.

Design, build, and test mission-critical onboard embedded software for autonomous vehicles. Integrate sensors and actuators, develop device interfaces and runtimes, support ML/robotics middleware, improve deployment/observability systems, debug on-vehicle and bench, and collaborate across hardware, autonomy, and operations to ship production features.

Develop and execute Hardware-in-the-Loop tests for an integrated autonomous transit system. Responsibilities include creating automated regression tests, analyzing logs and telemetry, troubleshooting embedded controllers and networks, tracking defects, improving simulators and test infrastructure, preparing readiness evidence, and collaborating with software, autonomy, vehicle, safety, quality, and deployment teams. The role involves hands-on lab, vehicle, and test-facility work with some travel or on-site presence.

Design and build unified testing frameworks enabling portability across SIL, HIL, and simulation. Configure and maintain physical HIL benches and hardware interfaces, integrate automated HIL tests into CI pipelines, collaborate with software teams to improve HIL/CI systems, and monitor runtime performance, system health, and reliability metrics across testing platforms.

Own localization requirements, simulation and track testing, Hardware-in-the-Loop testing, and unit test coverage for autonomous ground vehicle software. Collaborate with autonomy, systems, safety, and hardware teams; review requirements and code; configure localization and safety algorithms; and support systems-level solutions. The role requires source-level C++ understanding, requirements management, safety standards familiarity, and testing across unit, simulation, track, and HIL environments.

Technical owner for integrating and validating new transit features on the GATN guideway. Design requirements and integration scenarios, run track tests, assess safety function health from logs and metrics, drive triage and release readiness, and improve test suites, tooling, and processes to ensure safe, available system operations.

Lead and build the commercial legal function for project financing and procurement. Structure and negotiate SPV, loan, security, EPC, IP licensing, MSAs, POs, and warehousing agreements. Support sales on RFPs, ensure regulatory compliance, and manage outside counsel while executing substantive legal work to limit outside fees.

Build and maintain developer platform tooling that ensures SIL-4 safety compliance: automation for certification evidence, CI/CD improvements, Bazel build maintenance, lightweight web dashboards, developer workflow automation, monitoring, and on-call support.