Staff Embedded Software Engineer

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Job description

About Stack:

Stack is developing revolutionary AI and advanced autonomous systems designed to enhance safety, reliability, and efficiency of modern operations. Stack's autonomous technology incorporates cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and cloud technologies, empowering us to create innovative solutions that address the needs and challenges of the dynamic trucking transportation industry. With decades of experience creating and deploying real world systems for demanding environments, the Stack team is dedicated to developing an autonomous solution ecosystem tailored to the trucking industry's unique demands.

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About the Role:

The firmware team is responsible for developing and maintaining the embedded software that bridges hardware and high-level applications in the Stack AV autonomous vehicle system. Our work ensures that sensors, actuators, and compute platforms operate reliably, and in real-time, forming the foundation of safe and intelligent trucking.

As a Staff Embedded Software Engineer, you will lead the design, development, and validation of software for our safety-critical embedded platform. You will architect firmware that interfaces directly with sensors, compute modules and the base vehicle, ensuring deterministic and safe behavior.

Responsibilities:

• Develop embedded software architectures - develop scalable, modular, and real-time embedded systems for our autonomous vehicle platform.
• Mentor and guide team members - provide technical leadership, conduct code reviews, and lead by example.
• Ensure compliance with safety standards - apply safety guidelines to build safety-critical software with robust fault handling.
• Coordinate tasks amongst team members to achieve on time delivery.
• Support vehicle testing and field deployments - diagnose and resolve embedded software issues in real-world scenarios.

Qualifications: 

• Expert in C++ for embedded systems development for safety critical systems.
• Strong understanding of RTOS concepts / programming (e.g. FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS).
• Experience with safety-critical standards such as ISO 26262, DO-178C, IEC 61508, IEC 62304 or similar.
• Provide technical leadership in a small team.
• Hardware abstraction layer (HAL) and BSP development.
• Multithreaded and real-time software design.
• Good understanding of CAN and ethernet communication protocols, ideally in an automotive context.
• Has taken at least one product through to production, including maintaining the product with paying customers.

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Please Note: Pursuant to its business activities and use of technology, Stack AV complies with all applicable U.S. national security laws, regulations, and administrative requirements, which can restrict Stack AV’s ability to employ certain persons in certain positions pursuant to a range of national security-related requirements. As such, this position may be contingent upon Stack AV verifying a candidate’s residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status. This position may also involve working with software and technologies subject to U.S. export control regulations. Under these regulations, it may be necessary for Stack AV to obtain a U.S. government export license prior to releasing its technologies to certain persons. If Stack AV determines that a candidate’s residence, U.S. person status, and/or citizenship status will require a license, prohibit the candidate from working in this position, or otherwise be subject to national security-related restrictions, Stack AV expressly reserves the right to either consider the candidate for a different position that is not subject to such restrictions, on whatever terms and conditions Stack AV shall establish in its sole discretion, or, in the alternative, decline to move forward with the candidate’s application.

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Pittsburgh has 304,759 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 2.3% of the population of Pennsylvania. It covers 55 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 5,504 people per square mile. The median age is 33.6, 18% younger than the state median (33.6 against 40.9).

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The median gross rent is $1,261 a month (rent plus utilities), 4% above the state median ($1,261 against $1,209). Over a year that is 23.0% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $205,800, which is 3.1 times the median household income ($65,742); a ratio under 4 usually means ownership is within reach for many households. 47.7% of households own their home, 31% below the state average (47.7% against 69.3%). A low ownership share points to a rental-heavy market with more apartments and shorter stays.

Work and pay

The Pittsburgh, PA metropolitan area has 1,114,490 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $49,650 a year, about the same as the national median ($49,650 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (121,440 jobs, median $45,970); food preparation and serving related (101,240 jobs, median $31,350); transportation and material moving (91,270 jobs, median $42,950). The area is most specialised in healthcare practitioners and technical (1.3 times) and community and social service (1.2 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($108,010) and computer and mathematical ($98,100). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Allegheny County was 3.0%. 64.3% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Allegheny County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

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Among workers, 47.5% drive alone, 11.5% use public transit, 9.6% walk, 22.4% work from home. 8.8% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 46% below the state average (8.8% against 16.4%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

49.1% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 40% above the state share (49.1% against 35.2%). 9.5% of residents were born outside the United States, 23% above the state share (9.5% against 7.7%). The poverty rate is 20.1%, 71% above the state rate (20.1% against 11.7%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 74°F (23.1°C), and the coolest is Jan at 27°F (-2.8°C). About 991 mm (39 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Jun is the wettest month (105 mm) and Feb the driest (68 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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