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Sr. Staff Embedded Software Engineer, Device Drivers

Lucid Group, Inc.
Newark, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 3/10/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/10/2025

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Leading the future in luxury electric and mobility

At Lucid, we set out to introduce the most captivating, luxury electric vehicles that elevate the human experience and transcend the perceived limitations of space, performance, and intelligence. Vehicles that are intuitive, liberating, and designed for the future of mobility.

We plan to lead in this new era of luxury electric by returning to the fundamentals of great design - where every decision we make is in service of the individual and environment. Because when you are no longer bound by convention, you are free to define your own experience.

Come work alongside some of the most accomplished minds in the industry. Beyond providing competitive salaries, we're providing a community for innovators who want to make an immediate and significant impact. If you are driven to create a better, more sustainable future, then this is the right place for you.

Leading the future of luxury mobility

Lucid's mission is to inspire the adoption of sustainable energy by creating the most captivating luxury electric vehicles, centered around the human experience. Working at Lucid Motors means having a shared vision to power the future in revolutionary ways. Be part of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform the automotive industry.

Software has a crucial role in the modern vehicle where it commands the operation of many sub-systems. The most visible and most complex among them is the Infotainment system. It is an integral part of the human machine interface (HMI), and is increasingly contributing to the user experience of the occupants. We are seeking a Senior Staff Device Driver Software Engineer for our state-of-the-art Infotainment system. This position requires an experienced professional with accomplished background in embedded RTOS. Our ideal candidate possesses extended knowledge in device hardware/software interface, interrupt-based drivers in QNX, and as someone who can adapt quickly and contribute to an efficient and stable runtime platform within a fast-paced environment.

The Role
Enable hardware and software components from potential vendors, interact with partners to develop and support the board, device drivers, and boot loaders
Develop and modify product specific kernel and device drivers
Configure memory mapping and interrupt routing for efficient operations
Develop unit test cases. Diagnose, analyze, and resolve issues
Optimize the virtualized operating environment and tune the platform subsystems for key use cases

Qualifications
A minimum of 7 years of industry experience in system software development
Proven experience in development of any of these drivers: displays, FPD-Link, camera MIPI CSI, GMSL, capacitive touch input
Advanced knowledge of OS internals (process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, memory allocation, file system, networking, storage, system architecture)
5 years of experience developing in C/C and shell scripting
Fluency in source code management, unit test, code review, and issue tracking systems
Hands on experience configuring, troubleshooting, and optimizing embedded systems and middleware
Mastery skills in Linux development environment with GNU toolchain
Expert in embedded system development using RTOS (QNX preferred) and embedded Linux or Android
Working knowledge with Hypervisor and virtualization technologies in embedded usage (QEMU, Virt I/O, safe partitioning, secure IPC)
Passion for product excellence and quality

Bonus Points
Knowledgeable in display interface such as DSI and HDMI, tcon programming, and configuring FPD-Link SerDes
Expert in camera control and data pipeline, GMSL links, MIPI CSI programming and processing
Familiar with H.264/H.265 hardware encode and decode, RTP protocol, color space conversion, NPU processing for video streams
Knowledgeable in display interface such as DSI and HDMI, tcon programming, and configuring FPD-Link SerDes
Experience with board bring-up, kernel customizations, device driver optimization
Experience with automotive infotainment systems

Education
BS minimum in the areas of Computer Science, Computer engineering or other related fields (MS preferred)

Salary Range: The compensation range for this position is specific to the locations listed below and is the range Lucid reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; and other relevant business and organizational factors.

Additional Compensation and Benefits: Lucid offers a wide range of competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, vacation, and 401k. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Lucid's equity program and/or a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs. (Cash or equity incentive awards, if any, will depend on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and company performance.)

Base Pay Range (Annual)

$195,500-$286,770 USD

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To all recruitment agencies: Lucid Motors does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our careers alias or other Lucid Motors employees. Lucid Motors is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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Salary : $195,500 - $286,770

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