Senior Embedded Software Engineer - RTOS
Latitude AI · Pittsburgh, PA
$179,200–$268,800from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Pittsburgh, PA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior embedded software engineering role focused on low-level platform work for automotive ADAS systems. The position centers on designing RTOS configurations, memory protection, hardware abstraction layers, and SoC integration modules across ARM-based targets running FreeRTOS and SafeRTOS. It suits engineers with deep ARM architecture knowledge and hands-on experience enforcing hardware-level isolation in safety-critical, multi-core embedded environments.
Senior level · 4+ years · Pittsburgh, PA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9 people in the Pittsburgh, PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2–15
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $127,238 (middle half $97,661–$159,195). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting lists three office locations (Pittsburgh, Dearborn MI, Palo Alto CA); the compensation range is explicitly stated for California. Pittsburgh is used as the primary CBSA since it is listed as headquarters, but candidates may be based at any of the three sites.
The salary range of $179,200–$268,800/year is stated specifically for California; actual pay at other locations may differ.
Degree requirement: a Bachelor's is the baseline gate, but the JD explicitly accepts a Master's + 2 years or a PhD as equivalents. Minimum degree is set to Bachelor's as the lowest stated threshold; the 4-year overall years minimum reflects the Bachelor's path.
FreeRTOS and SafeRTOS appear in the team description ('Our stack' narrative) rather than in the requirements section, so they are marked preferred. The requirements section gates on RTOS concepts generally (MPU, HAL, bare-metal) without naming a specific RTOS product.
Logic analyzers are mentioned alongside JTAG and Tracealyzer in the requirements section but are a category of instrument rather than a named product; they are captured implicitly under the JTAG/Tracealyzer skills.
ASPICE is mentioned as a compliance standard the team follows but is not explicitly listed as a candidate requirement, so it is omitted from the skills list.
The 'Nice to have' section explicitly covers ISO 26262, Automotive Ethernet, UDS, SOME/IP, Linux, Python, Bazel, Docker, and vendor/partner representation experience — all marked preferred.
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