Senior/Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Battery Systems (BMS and Charging)
Joby Aviation2 years ago
San Carlos, CA, USASenior / Staff+
Base Salary
$156k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, and verify safety-critical embedded C++ software for aircraft battery management systems.
- Develop software for battery monitoring and protection, fault detection and diagnostics, low-level battery-monitoring interfaces, charger power control, thermal management, safety functions, and communications.
- Integrate algorithms into production embedded software and collaborate on interfaces, performance, and verification.
- Contribute to software architecture, technical roadmaps, design directions, workstream scoping, and development scheduling across BMS and BGSE systems.
- Develop reliable data exchange between the charger, aircraft battery, and backend infrastructure, including aircraft-to-ground charge-control interactions.
- Define and maintain software interfaces with aircraft-side, hardware, algorithm, and backend teams.
- Provide technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and testing, automation, and release standards.
- Decompose system requirements into software requirements with cross-functional battery, electrical, thermal, systems, aircraft software, and operations teams.
- Support certification through documentation, software- and hardware-in-the-loop verification, and compliance activities.
- Debug hardware/software issues on live high-voltage systems in laboratories, aircraft, and operational field sites.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, or a related STEM field and 8+ years of relevant experience; or a master's degree and 6+ years; or a PhD and 3+ years.
- Expert-level modern C++ experience with real-time operating systems and/or embedded Linux.
- Experience taking problem areas from definition through project or roadmap delivery across multiple embedded software projects.
- Deep understanding of microcontroller and microprocessor architectures with hands-on embedded-target debugging experience.
- Networking and communications experience with Ethernet, UDP, TCP, and CAN.
- Experience providing technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, and automated unit, integration, or hardware-in-the-loop testing.
- Experience developing against formal requirements for safety-critical or high-reliability systems.
- Prior Python experience and strong communication and documentation skills.
- Preferred familiarity with EV charging systems and EVSE, including DC fast charging, CCS, ISO 15118, OCPP, and MCS.
- Preferred familiarity with battery systems and BMS, state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation, charge algorithms, high-voltage systems, thermal management, liquid cooling control, aviation software standards, DO-178C, ARP4754A, and Linux.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, quick-iteration hardware environment.
Benefits
- Target base pay is $155,900 - $227,300 per year, with additional compensation in Restricted Stock Units.
- Comprehensive benefits include paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and life insurance.
About Joby Aviation
Joby Aviation builds piloted, all‑electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for short‑haul air taxi services, developing the vehicles, certification, and operations in-house. The company plans to launch commercial service in the U.S. and Dubai and is scaling manufacturing ahead of entry into service. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, Joby is a public company listed on the NYSE.