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Senior/Staff Software Systems Engineer

208k – 300kFoster City, CAHybrid7+ YOE
Summary

Design and implement formal methods, tools, and processes to verify safety-critical software for autonomous vehicles. Requires 7+ years experience, advanced degree, and strong background in formal verification, Python, and C++.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Develop and employ formal languages and models to describe intended software/system behaviors.
  • Leverage third-party or build in-house tools to generate formal design and validation tests.
  • Implement and integrate tools to verify that software/systems behave as intended.
  • Integrate analysis and verification into existing processes, workflows, tools, and other infrastructure.
  • Lead various systems engineering activities that are essential for a successful launch of safety-critical software on a self-driving vehicle.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in computer science, electrical engineering, robotics, aerospace, or related fields and 7+ years of experience.
  • Strong problem-solving, leadership, and mentoring skills in a fast-paced, safety-focused environment.
  • Strong formal methods background with good understanding of logic, formal languages, automata theory, and model checking.
  • Experience applying modeling and analysis techniques to software systems.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and C++ in real-time safety-critical applications and programming language fundamentals, object-oriented programming, memory management, performance, etc.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Contributed to formal methods research and/or implementations.
  • Shipped software products to market in production automobiles, aircraft, spacecraft, or other systems that require safety-critical software in embedded hardware.
  • Experience with standards such as DO178, ISO26262, SPICE or ASPICE, ISO12207, IEC61508, EN50128, etc.
Skills
PythonC++Formal MethodsModel CheckingAutomata TheoryLogicRTOSEmbedded SystemsSafety-Critical SoftwareISO 26262
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