Technical Lead – Rust (Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems) Mountain View, CA, onsite

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Rust Software Engineer to develop next-generation safety-critical embedded software for automotive real-time systems. The ideal candidate will combine deep expertise in Rust, real-time operating systems, and functional safety standards to build secure, deterministic, and highly reliable software platforms.

The role involves designing and implementing low-level platform components, middleware, device drivers, communication stacks, and safety-critical applications running on MCU, MPU, or heterogeneous multi-core platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Software Architecture \& Development

• Design and develop safetycritical embedded software using Rust.
• Develop lowlevel platform software, middleware, drivers, and system services.
• Build highperformance realtime applications with deterministic behavior.
• Define software architecture and interface specifications.
• Optimize memory footprint, startup time, and CPU utilization.
• Perform code reviews and ensure compliance with safety guidelines.

Functional Safety

• Contribute to safety concept implementation and software safety requirements. o Develop software compliant with ISO 26262
• Support safety analysis activities: o FMEA
• FMEDA o FTA
• DFA

Real-Time Systems

• Design solutions for: o Hard realtime systems
• Interrupt-driven architectures o Multi-threaded systems
• Time-sensitive networking
• Analyze worst case execution time (WCET).
• Develop interruptsafe and lockfree software components.
• Ensure deterministic system behavior.

Security \& Reliability

• Implement secure boot and trusted execution concepts.
• Apply secure coding practices.
• Design memorysafe software architectures.
• Perform threat analysis and mitigate cybersecurity risks.

Integration \& Validation

• Integrate Rust components with: o C/C\+\+
• AUTOSAR o Linux
• QNX o RTOS platforms
• Develop unit, integration, and system tests.
• Support CI/CD and automated quality gates.

Mandatory Technical Skills

Rust Programming (Expert)

• Ownership, borrowing, lifetimes
• Traits and generics
• Async programming
• Unsafe Rust review and containment
• FFI integration (Rust ↔ C/C\+\+)
• no_std development
• Embedded Rust ecosystem
• Cargo workspace management

Embedded Systems

• Baremetal development
• MCU and MPU architecture
• ARM CortexM / CortexR / CortexA
• Memorymapped peripherals
• DMA, interrupts, watchdogs
• BSP and device drivers

Real-Time Systems

• FreeRTOS
• Zephyr
• SafeRTOS
• AUTOSAR OS
• QNX
• RT Linux

Communication Protocols

• SPI
• I2C
• UART
• CAN / CANFD
• Ethernet
• SOME/IP
• DDS
• BLE
• UWB
• TCP/IP

Safety \& Quality

• ISO 26262 ASILB/C/D
• MISRA
• ASPICE
• Static analysis
• Formal verification concepts
• Safety case development

Development Tools

• Git/Gerrit
• Jenkins/GitHub Actions
• CMake/Bazel
• QEMU
• Lauterbach
• Vector CANoe
• SonarQube

Preferred Qualifications

Automotive Domain

• AUTOSAR Classic
• Secure ECU communication
• Vehicle networking
• SDV architectures
• HSM integration

Advanced Skills

• Hypervisors
• Mixedcriticality systems
• Multicore safety architectures
• Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
• Cryptography
• Formal methods
• Rust safetyqualified toolchains

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in: o Computer Engineering
• Electrical Engineering o Embedded Systems
• Computer Science

Experience

For Technical Lead

• 8\+ years embedded software development
• 3\+ years leading architecture teams
• Safetycertified product experience

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong C/C\+\+ background transitioning to Rust
• Experience delivering ASILB to ASILD systems
• Deep understanding of realtime constraints
• Comfortable reviewing and justifying unsafe Rust usage
• Excellent debugging and systemlevel problemsolving skills
• Experience building software for vehicle ECUs, controllers, gateways, cockpit platforms, or safety domains

Keywords for Recruiting Search

Rust, Embedded Rust, no_std, ISO 26262, ASIL-D, SafeRTOS, QNX, AUTOSAR, Rust FFI, Embedded Linux, Cybersecurity, Device Drivers, Real-Time Systems, MCU, Cortex-M, Functional Safety, AUTOSAR Adaptive, Software Defined Vehicle (SDV).