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 MCUbased platforms. Solid understanding of motor control software, real time systems, and embedded development workflows. Working knowledge (handson preferred) of one or more host-side technology stacks, such as:o C/C++/ RTOSo C#/.NET / Python (automation/tools, GUIs, packaging)o 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.