Base Salary
$210k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and implementation of hardware abstraction layers, peripheral drivers, and board support packages across MCU families.
- Support RTOS configuration, integration, optimization, OS selection, task architecture, and resource management.
- Design reusable core firmware frameworks and libraries for telemetry, firmware updates, and health monitoring.
- Contribute to Bazel-based build infrastructure, reproducible builds, dependency management, and scalable target configurations.
- Drive coding standards, driver interfaces, platform APIs, MCU selection, memory management, and peripheral-allocation decisions.
- Improve build, test, toolchain, compiler, linker, and CI infrastructure.
- Optimize boot time, memory footprint, and runtime performance across the firmware platform.
- Collaborate with electrical, mechanical, test, and firmware teams on ECU software integration workflows and reusable software.
- Provide vehicle system integration support, including feature implementation, ECU handshaking, debugging, and root-cause analysis.
- Drive firmware initiatives supporting product quality and vehicle safety in propulsion and battery systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of firmware development experience, ideally in safety-critical, time-sensitive, and resource-constrained environments.
- Previous software architecture experience with an understanding of portable, maintainable, and scalable code.
- Expertise in C programming; familiarity with C++, Python, and Bash scripting.
- Experience delivering software-enabled hardware products, including low-level firmware such as drivers and bootloaders.
- Hands-on experience debugging embedded systems using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and related diagnostics tooling.
- Strong understanding of control systems and system integration.
- Familiarity with electric drivetrains, battery technology, and vehicle communication protocols and peripherals such as ADC, CAN, force, and IMU sensors.
- Familiarity with model-based design and MATLAB/Simulink.
- Familiarity with real-time operating-system platforms, ideally in functional-safety-critical applications.
- Familiarity with static analysis and linting tools.
- Experience applying CI/CD and test automation to consumer-facing, software-enabled hardware products.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100% with FSA and HSA options.
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates.
- Fertility and family-building benefits through Progyny.
- Flexible time off.
- 401(k) match.
About ALSO
We’re ALSO, an electric mobility company on a mission to build the world’s best small vehicles for moving people and goods, driven and autonomous. Originally incubated within Rivian, we’re rethinking transportation from first principles to create a new generation of smaller, smarter, and more connected electric vehicles. Our team combines automotive rigor with advanced software, autonomy, sensing, and vertically integrated EV technologies to build products designed around the realities of modern mobility. We believe small vehicles are not a niche category, but a foundational shift in how people, goods, and communities will move through the world in the decades ahead. At ALSO, details matter. We’re builders, technologists, designers, and dreamers who care deeply about craft, innovation, and the everyday experiences our products create. Because movement is more than transportation—it’s connection, culture, freedom, and collective impact. We’re building that future now.