Sr. Staff Engineer – Firmware/Software Development

Role Overview:

This role is responsible for technical leadership and execution of firmware and software development for the RH850 Motor Control and Automotive Application Platform.

The Sr. Staff Engineer serves as a software domain authority, driving architecture, implementation quality, and developer experience while enabling scalable, user‑friendly, embedded development platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead firmware and software architecture, design, and implementation for RH850 motor control and automotive application platforms.
• Drive software technical decisions with focus on scalability, performance, maintainability, and developer usability.
• Own firmware/software execution from concept through validation, qualification support, and release readiness.
• Collaborate closely with hardware, systems, validation, and applications teams to ensure optimized hardware‑software integration.
• Contribute to SDKs, drivers, middleware, reference applications, and development tools enabling rapid customer adoption.
• Ensure firmware/software deliverables meet automotive quality, reliability, and robustness expectations.
• Identify and mitigate software‑related technical risks across platform development.
• Actively influence developer experience, documentation quality, and platform usability.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 10+ years of experience.
• Strong expertise in embedded firmware/software development for automotive or real‑time systems.
• Proven experience delivering production‑quality embedded software for MCU‑based platforms.
• Solid understanding of motor control software, real‑time systems, and embedded development workflows.
• Working knowledge (hands‑on preferred) of one or more host-side technology stacks, such as:
• C/C++/ RTOS
• C#/.NET / Python (automation/tools, GUIs, packaging)
• UI frameworks such as Qt, WPF/WinUI, or equivalent
• Experience integrating host utilities with embedded targets over common interfaces (e.g., USB, UART, CAN/CAN‑FD, Ethernet) and ensuring reliability across OS environments.

+Advantage

• Experience with embedded firmware ecosystems such as AUTOSAR drivers.
• Experience building embedded development platforms or SDKs with broad adoption across the embedded engineering community.