Software Engineering Manager (Firmware)

Join Applied Intuition as a Software Engineering Manager (Firmware) and lead the Firmware team within the Vehicle OS organization. You will drive the architecture, development, and integration of foundational embedded systems that enable the next generation of automotive experiences. Your technical leadership will directly impact how modern vehicles sense, process, and respond to the world. You will also have the opportunity to mentor and grow a team of firmware and embedded software engineers, collaborate across hardware and software engineering teams, and ensure the successful delivery of cutting-edge RTOS, Linux kernel, and hardware abstraction layers for automotive devices.

• Lead and mentor a team of firmware and embedded software engineers, driving their professional growth and development.
• Architect and develop robust, low-level software for the Vehicle OS platform, overseeing the development and maintenance of embedded C/C++ codebases.
• Collaborate across hardware and software engineering teams to design, bring up, and validate new platforms, ensuring successful delivery of cutting-edge RTOS, Linux kernel, and hardware abstraction layers.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent from a top program (Stanford, Berkeley, CMU, Waterloo, or similar)
• 8+ years of experience architecting and shipping production embedded/firmware software
• Proven ability to manage, mentor, and grow technical teams
• Hands-on hardware integration and debugging experience
• Experience shipping complex firmware or embedded software in production, ideally for automotive or consumer electronics
• Experience with platform bring-up, sensors integration, and HW/SW co-design
• Strong background in embedded C/C++, RTOS implementation, Linux kernel, and low-level driver/HAL development
• Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles
• Familiarity with device bring-up, OTA, and full system integration
• Experience working with complex SoC mixing application and real time cores subsystems
• Cross-platform and vendor component integration
• Automotive software stack (ADAS, QNX, OTA updates)