ALSO
Vehicle Lead, Firmware Engineering
Palo Alto
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$50kDetected 77 days ago
C++GitCI/CDAgileEmbedded SystemsTest AutomationLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- The salary for this position ranges from $240,000 to $290,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.
- We're passionate about helping the world find a better way to get there-wherever it is you're headed.
- We're located in the heart of Silicon Valley and have brought together a world-class team from some of the biggest brands in the technology, automotive, cycling, outdoor recreation and retail spaces.
Responsibilities
- Sprint Planning: Define and organize firmware integration targets for each sprint in coordination with Pod Leads and program milestones.
- Cross-Team Coordination: Partner with Pod Leads on firmware development priorities, ensuring alignment between module-level work and vehicle-level integration needs.
- System Integration Leadership: Lead full vehicle system integration efforts including feature implementation, ECU handshaking, debugging, and root cause analysis across distributed systems.
- Hardware Collaboration: Collaborate with design engineering teams (Electrical, Mechanical, Test) on designing and documenting SW integration workflows across various ECUs.
- CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Drive implementation and maintenance of robust CI/CD pipelines ensuring the team has access to stable and development builds.
- Production support: Support pre-production and production build activities, vehicle testing, and launch readiness
- Prior experience in a technical lead or integration lead capacity.
- Together we're working hands-on to imagine, design and build an entirely new solution to a global set of transportation challenges.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in embedded software/firmware development, with demonstrated experience in vehicle-level or system-level integration.
- Proven leadership in coordinating firmware delivery across multiple teams or modules.
- Deep experience with automotive/vehicle communication protocols: CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, as well as I2C, SPI, USB-PD, and other digital protocols.
- Expert-level proficiency in C/C++ and debugging complex embedded systems across multiple ECUs.
- Strong understanding of hardware/software architecture selection with cost, performance, and safety tradeoffs.
- Experience with release management processes and tooling (Git workflows, release branching strategies).
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time operating systems, ideally in functional-safety critical applications (ISO 26262 familiarity a plus).
Compensation
- The salary for this position ranges from $240,000 to $290,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.
Benefits
- Robust health coverage - excellent health, dental, and vision insurance covered up to 100% by ALSO, with FSA & HSA options
- One Medical membership and dedicated insurance advocates
- Rich fertility and family-building benefits with Progyny
- Flexible time off
This listing is sourced directly from ALSO's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.