The company

Outrider, the pioneer in autonomous yard operations for logistics hubs, helps large enterprises improve safety and increase efficiency. The only company exclusively focused on automating all aspects of yard operations, Outrider eliminates manual tasks that are hazardous and repetitive. Outrider’s mission is to drive the rapid adoption of sustainable freight transportation by deploying zero-emission systems. Outrider is a private company backed by NEA, 8VC, Koch Disruptive Technologies, and other top-tier investors. For more information, visit www.outrider.ai

The Role

You'll be the key to creating reliable, safety-critical embedded software that controls our autonomous vehicle hardware - brakes, steering, actuation, and other functions. Given your background developing embedded software for commercially-deployed mobile robotics applications, you'll have a major, positive impact on the performance, reliability, and safety of the Outrider System!

The Software Engineer - Embedded Software Sustainment will be responsible for contributing to all applications of embedded software in Outrider's products, including vehicle controls, actuation, and navigation; signal processing; and communications.

The role requires exceptional software engineering skills – you will be responsible for helping build and support autonomous vehicle systems that redefine large enterprise supply chains and boast safe, error-free, and effective operational performance.

Embedded software engineering is a pivotal function for delivering a safety-critical system for industrial automation. The opportunity offers a technical, hands-on, software engineer the chance to refine and solidify a market-defining, enterprise-grade robotics product that combines autonomous vehicle technologies with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model. 

This position is ideal for someone who wants to be a part of an elite, impactful development unit pushing confined-area, heavy-vehicle autonomy into the mainstream. We're a team of builders and sustainers that's passionate about start-to-finish, production-oriented development and rapidly introducing our software to the real world of logistics.

The ideal candidate embraces the idea of reducing the carbon footprint of our 'get-it-now' economy and is invigorated by our overarching mission to accelerate the adoption of zero-emission, self-driving vehicle technology.

Duties and responsibilities

• Triage and perform root-cause failure analysis through understanding of system usage, end-user observation reporting, and system log file information
• Coordinate across teams, including hardware, software, system safety, and test to build on system behavior and performance, as well as rapidly iterate features to meet desired targets, metrics, and KPIs
• Support product deployment, system maintenance, and the software development life cycle for deployed systems to customer sites or system validation
• Identify opportunities to improve deployed systems; work with software teams to understand data, performance, and potential improvements
• Travel and perform fieldwork, depending on customer locations (up to 25%)
• Develop test cases to verify/validate software requirements at different levels of the development lifecycle by using existing test framework/scripts or developing new ones
• Execute test cases including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) integration testing on various embedded systems and components
• Support continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD)
• Contribute generally to the growth and success of the Company and the building of a vibrant culture focused on the responsible deployment of zero-emission autonomous vehicle technology

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field
• Demonstrated C development experience focused on embedded applications
• Background in embedded software development (ideally for marine, ground, air, or space vehicles, autonomous or otherwise)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Demonstrated strong leadership and people skills

Ideal qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field
• Experience developing and testing software for safety-critical applications
• Familiarity with real-time operating systems (RTOS)
• Familiarity with functional safety specifications, including ISO 26262 and IEC 61508
• A pedigree in robotics and/or autonomous vehicle systems
• Familiarity with C++, Python, and ROS
• Experience with the CAN bus standard, Ethernet and UDP

Salary range of $110,000 - 145,000. For benefits, check this out!

At Outrider, we believe in cultivating an environment where there is diversity of perspectives, experiences, and knowledge with the expectation that we thrive in an inclusive environment. Outrider is committed to a workforce where everyone's opportunities are limitless regardless of race, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any others that are protected by law.