Demo

Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Motional
Pittsburgh, PA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/12/2026

Mission Summary

The Infrastructure team designs and develops high quality software to leverage embedded compute platforms for autonomy stack development. Most of the software we write will affect safety critical applications on the Motional vehicle platforms. We are a team of engineers who bring a broad experience in software development and leverage this to develop software which pushes the boundaries of what has been achieved in the autonomous vehicle safety space.

We are looking for engineers who are motivated to solve hard problems and can lead development of complex safety-critical software components on embedded platforms. This is a remote role.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Designing and developing infrastructure software on various hardware platforms for applications such as Vision Processing, Radar systems, Safety monitoring etc., to be run on self-driving vehicles
  • Designing firmware components such as device drivers and kernel libraries
  • Designing test harnesses for embedded software components as well as full systems
  • Providing technical mentorship to engineers
  • Proactively supports the team with engineering support in their product area.

What We're Looking For:

  • Experience with creating detailed requirements from use cases.
  • Ability to lead a technical initiative, including breaking down work and guiding other engineers through execution.
  • Experience writing software for embedded platforms in C and C .
  • Experience with TDD - unit tests and integration tests.
  • Experience working on embedded Linux / RTOSs.
  • Experience working with networks (Ethernet, CAN etc.) and the common networking protocols.
  • Experience with debugging on embedded platforms.
  • Experience writing software in Python and experience doing automation with shell scripting.
  • Experience working with ARM Cortex MCUs or Microprocessors

Bonus Points (not required):

  • Experience working with large data pipelines, and platforms that require deterministic execution.
  • Experience using inter-system communication protocols such as I2C and SPI
  • Experience deploying Machine Learning models.
  • Experience working with FGPAs and GPUs.
  • Experience working directly with the Linux kernel or Device Drivers.
  • Experience working with RTOSs such as FreeRTOS, ThreadX or PreemptRT.
  • Experience with Simulation and Code Generation, and knowing when their use is appropriate.

Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We're driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We're creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it's not only good for our business, it's the right thing to do.

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We're driven to scale; we're moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.

Salary : $155,300 - $207,000

If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Senior Embedded Software Engineer career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$117,524 - $131,245
Income Estimation: 
$145,630 - $167,634
Income Estimation: 
$117,524 - $131,245
Income Estimation: 
$145,630 - $167,634
Income Estimation: 
$145,630 - $167,634
Income Estimation: 
$162,729 - $194,659
Income Estimation: 
$80,479 - $90,779
Income Estimation: 
$90,609 - $105,383
Income Estimation: 
$90,609 - $105,383
Income Estimation: 
$117,524 - $131,245

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs with skills like those required for the Senior Embedded Software Engineer.

Click the checkbox next to the jobs that you are interested in.

  • Bug/Defect Analysis Skill

    • Income Estimation: $90,707 - $120,959
    • Income Estimation: $101,441 - $130,752
  • Debugging Skill

    • Income Estimation: $82,230 - $118,841
    • Income Estimation: $94,625 - $127,578
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at Motional

  • Motional Las Vegas, NV
  • Mission Summary: We are looking for an organized and detail-oriented Equity Administrator to manage and scale our private equity program as we grow. This r... more
  • 13 Days Ago

  • Motional Boston, MA
  • Mission Summary The AI Data Foundry is the vital link between our company's expansive data and the engineering teams that rely on it. We architect and oper... more
  • 13 Days Ago

  • Motional Pittsburgh, PA
  • Mission Summary Our Dev Tooling team is a diverse group of software engineers creating an innovative software framework. This framework (developed in C ) e... more
  • 13 Days Ago

  • Motional Pittsburgh, PA
  • Motional's Pittsburgh office is located in the new Hazelwood Green development, a culmination of the city's goal of restoring an economic driver to the nei... more
  • 13 Days Ago


Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Senior Embedded Software Engineer jobs in the Pittsburgh, PA area that may be a better fit.

  • Software Engineering Institute | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
  • About the role Are you an engineer who enjoys a challenge? Are you excited about working for an FFRDC focused on areas critical to national security? Do yo... more
  • 4 Days Ago

  • latitude Pittsburgh, PA
  • Latitude AI ( lat.ai ) develops automated driving technologies, including L3, for Ford vehicles at scale. We’re driven by the opportunity to reimagine what... more
  • 3 Days Ago

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!