Embedded Tools Engineer

Avride Inc

Job Overview

Location

Austin, Texas, United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems for embedded software developed for in-house electronic hardware, streamlining build, test, deployment, and usage processes.
• Create tools for testing, diagnostics, and management of embedded systems used in autonomous vehicles and robots.
• Collaborate with hardware and software teams to ensure seamless integration between firmware, software, and physical components.
• Monitor infrastructure performance and implement improvements to enhance stability, efficiency, and reliability of embedded development workflows.
• Provide direct support to development teams by resolving issues related to firmware CI/CD pipelines, build failures, and development flow bottlenecks.
• Participate in designing the software-hardware architecture to define how embedded systems interact with physical components and external interfaces.
• Develop and maintain tooling written in Python, including asynchronous applications and hardware interaction using pyserial, python-can, and smbus2.
• Utilize Bazel and Nix for reproducible builds and package management across embedded development environments.
• Write and maintain Bash scripts for low-level system configuration, hardware initialization, and automation tasks.
• Interpret complex technical documentation and electrical schematics to inform software architecture decisions and hardware-software integration strategies.
• Debug and analyze C++ firmware code to identify root causes of system failures and optimize performance.
• Apply deep understanding of standard communication interfaces including CAN, UART, Ethernet, and I2C to develop and validate embedded system communications.
• Maintain a highly responsible, organized, and methodical approach to problem-solving, ensuring robust and reliable tooling for critical embedded systems.

🎯 Requirements

• Practical experience designing and maintaining CI/CD workflows in GitHub Actions
• High proficiency in Python with deep experience using Asyncio, pyserial, python-can, and smbus2 for hardware interaction
• Hands-on experience with Bazel and Nix for reproducible builds and package management
• Ability to read, interpret, and debug C++ firmware code
• Proficiency in Bash for low-level system configuration and hardware initialization scripts
• Deep understanding of CAN, UART, Ethernet, and I2C communication protocols
• Ability to interpret electrical schematics and technical documentation to guide software architecture

🏖️ Benefits

• Work on cutting-edge embedded systems for autonomous vehicles and robots
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on hardware-software integration
• Contribute directly to the quality, safety, and stability of autonomous technology
• Engage in a pragmatic engineering culture focused on collaboration and sound technical practices

Skills & Technologies

Python

Node.js

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

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About Avride Inc

Avride Inc is a robotics company developing autonomous delivery and transportation systems. Founded in 2023 as a spin-out of Yandex’s self-driving division, it continues the team’s decade-long R&D on robotaxis, delivery bots, and autonomous trucks. The company operates fleets of sidewalk robots for last-mile grocery and meal delivery and is testing Level-4 autonomous vehicles on public roads in the United States and the Middle East. Avride integrates AI perception, mapping, and fleet-management software to enable scalable, driverless logistics services for retail, restaurant, and ride-hailing partners.

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