Job Title: Embedded Software Architect Safety product
Location: Chicago, IL

Job Description:

Define the embedded software architecture for next-generation collision mitigation systems, ensuring scalable, reliable, and maintainable solutions
Lead the design and integration of software frameworks that support camera, radar, and intelligent sensing technologies within safety-critical embedded environments.
Establish software architecture standards, design patterns, and technical roadmaps while guiding development teams through implementation and integration activities.
Collaborate with systems, software, and validation engineers to translate product requirements into robust architectural solutions that meet performance, safety, and reliability objectives.
Drive software architecture decisions across embedded Linux and real-time environments, balancing technical tradeoffs, product priorities, and long-term platform strategy.

What You Will Have:

Software Product Design/Architecture: Knowledge of software product design; ability to convert market requirements into software product design.
Teamwork: Knowledge of the necessity and value of teamwork; experience with; ability to work cooperatively towards shared goals and being supportive of others at all levels.
Technical Excellence: Knowledge of a given technology and various application methods; ability to develop and provide solutions to significant technical challenges.
Requirements Analysis: Knowledge of tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyze and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
Producing Results: Understanding of the criticality of getting things done in spite of current circumstances and the ability to utilize assigned resources and leverage back-channel resources (individuals or teams) to achieve or exceed planned outcomes.

Technical Skills:

Extensive experience designing software architectures for complex embedded systems using C++.
Strong background with embedded Linux, real-time systems, and software platform design for connected, autonomous, or safety-critical products.
Experience architecting solutions involving perception technologies, sensor fusion, camera systems, radar integration, or collision avoidance capabilities.
Proven ability to lead technical direction across cross-functional teams and influence software design decisions throughout the product lifecycle.
Experience with ROS/ROS2, distributed software architectures, middleware frameworks, and modern software development practices.
Strong understanding of system-level design, requirements decomposition, integration strategies, and software verification approaches for embedded products.

Educational Experience:

Embedded Software Architect Safety Product

Key skills