Real-Time Embedded Firmware Engineer, Perception

Parallel Systems; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 212,000; Full time

Job summary

Parallel Systems in Los Angeles seeks an Embedded Software Engineer for the Perception stack on autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles. You will own drivers, kernel components, and firmware enabling high-throughput sensors from bring-up to production hardening.

Applicants should have strong Linux internals, Rust and C/C++, and experience on NVIDIA platforms (Jetson/Tegra), Yocto builds, and sensor stacks such as V4L2 and GStreamer, with emphasis on real-time performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of hands-on embedded, firmware, or systems software engineering.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals and driver development on ARM-based platforms.
• Proficiency in Rust and C++ for systems-level programming.
• Experience with NVIDIA embedded platforms (Jetson/Tegra).
• Experience developing or maintaining drivers for high-throughput sensors (cameras/lidar).
• Comfortable debugging across hardware/software boundary (device tree, kernel logs).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain drivers, kernel modules, and firmware for embedded Linux systems on ARM/NVIDIA compute platforms.
• Write low-level systems software in Rust and C/C++ for perception-critical components.
• Build and optimize drivers for high-throughput sensors (camera, lidar), including capture pipelines and data integrity.
• Own sensing hardware performance and drive real-time optimizations (timesync, latency, jitter).
• Test and validate sensor configuration changes across firmware and sensor revisions.
• Profile and optimize GPU and kernel-level performance on NVIDIA platforms to meet real-time constraints.

Skills

Rust

C/C++

Linux internals

Driver development

Embedded systems

Real-time optimization

ROS2

Sensor fusion

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

NVIDIA Jetson/Tegra

Yocto

V4L2

GStreamer

MIPI CSI-2

CUDA/TensorRT

Device tree

Job description

Parallel Systems in Los Angeles seeks an Embedded Software Engineer for the Perception stack on autonomous, battery-electric rail vehicles. You will own drivers, kernel components, and firmware enabling high-throughput sensors from bring-up to production hardening.

Applicants should have strong Linux internals, Rust and C/C++, and experience on NVIDIA platforms (Jetson/Tegra), Yocto builds, and sensor stacks such as V4L2 and GStreamer, with emphasis on real-time performance.