--- title: Staff Embedded Engineer at Uber in Sunnyvale, CA description: Uber is hiring for the Staff Embedded Engineer role in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $211K–$234K per year. See the full description and apply. type: job url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/staff-embedded-engineer-at-uber-01a0d858-efa9-712b-b770-a4c15af5ded2 date: 2026-09-28T02:31:09Z og_description: Join Uber as Staff Embedded Engineer in Sunnyvale, CA. Pays $211K–$234K per year. Full-time role. Requires 7+ years of experience. og_image: https://www.foundrole.com/og/y1upto.png breadcrumbs: - label: Home url: https://www.foundrole.com/ - label: Search url: https://www.foundrole.com/jobs --- | | | |---|---| | **Company** | Uber | | **Location** | Sunnyvale, CA | | **Salary** | $211K/yr - $234K/yr | | **Type** | Full Time | | **Posted** | Sep 23, 2026 | ## Description **About the Role** Uber is launching AV Labs to accelerate the autonomous technology ecosystem. We're building out a high-velocity team of multi-disciplinary experts to turn real-world operations into high-quality data for our autonomous partners. This team is focused on the hardest problem in AV today: unlocking real-world, long-tail driving data. Autonomy is now a data race—and Uber has an edge: We collect rare, real-world driving data at a scale and capital efficiency no one else can match. Our AV Labs Hardware team is pioneering the next-generation E/E architecture for our cutting-edge L4 data collectioncapable vehicle fleet.You will drive critical projects ranging from initial 3rd-party hardware driver and firmware development to the embedded development, bring-up, and deployment of our in-house designed production hardware. As a Senior Embedded Engineer, your technical expertise will directly accelerate our path to production, playing a key role in shaping the reliability of our autonomous data collection fleet. **What the Candidate Will Do** **Develop Core Firmware & Drivers:** Design, write, and maintain robust firmware and low-level device drivers for 3rd-party automotive-grade components and critical AV sensors (LiDAR, radar, cameras) to enable immediate, high-fidelity data collection and shadow mode operations. **Drive In-House Hardware Bring-Up:** Execute the transition to production by taking ownership of board bring-up, hardware validation, and low-level software deployment for our custom, in-house designed autonomous computing platforms. **Collaborate on HW/SW Co-Design:** Partner closely with electrical and hardware engineering teams to implement hardware-software interfaces, participate in schematic reviews, and ensure component selection aligns with firmware requirements. **Debug & Optimize Complex Systems:** Utilize hardware debugging tools (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers) and software profiling to troubleshoot intricate system-level issues, optimize sensor data pipelines, and ensure strict timing and network synchronization across the vehicle. **Contribute to Team Excellence:** Act as a technical resource and mentor within the hardware team, actively contributing to best practices for embedded software architecture, code quality, and scalable deployment. **Basic Qualifications** **Embedded Software Experience:** Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, accompanied by **7+ years** of professional experience developing embedded software using modern C/C++ in RTOS (e.g., FreeRTOS, Embedded Linux) or bare-metal environments. **Low-Level Driver & Automotive Hardware Expertise:** Strong experience writing firmware and device drivers for complex, automotive-grade components, SoCs, and autonomous vehicle sensors (e.g., LiDAR, radar, cameras). This must include hands-on experience with sensor integration, board bring-up, hardware debugging tools (e.g., oscilloscopes, logic analyzers), and familiarity with standard automotive interfaces and vehicle networks (e.g., CAN/CAN-FD, Automotive Ethernet, FPD-Link/GMSL, PCIe, SPI, I2C). **Production Lifecycle Execution:** Demonstrated experience contributing to embedded hardware systems from initial prototyping and 3rd-party integration through to production deployment—ideally within the autonomous vehicle, robotics, or mission-critical automotive domains. **Preferred Qualifications** **Hardware-Software Co-Design:** Experience collaborating closely with electrical and hardware engineers on custom board designs, including participation in schematic reviews and component selection for computing platforms. **Functional Safety & Automotive Standards:** Understanding of automotive functional safety standards and their application in embedded software development, including experience with ISO 26262 (ASIL B through ASIL D) compliance and adherence to coding guidelines like MISRA C/C++. **Advanced Timing & Synchronization:** Experience with distributed system timing and hardware synchronization methodologies critical for sensor fusion. Familiarity with Precision Time Protocol (PTP/gPTP, IEEE 802.1AS) and hardware PPS routing across complex vehicle networks is highly valued. **High-Performance AV Compute Platforms:** Experience developing firmware and drivers for modern, high-performance autonomous driving SoCs and compute platforms (e.g., NVIDIA DRIVE, Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride) and optimizing data pipelines utilizing hardware accelerators (GPUs, DSPs, NPUs). For Sunnyvale, CA-based roles: The base salary range for this role is USD $211,000 per year - USD $234,000 per year. You will be eligible to participate in Uber's bonus program, and may be offered an equity award & other types of comp. All full-time employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan. You will also be eligible for various benefits. ## Skills - MISRA C - Debugging - ISO 26262 Functional Safety - PCI Express PCIe - IEEE Standards - Robotics - Prototyping - Software Deployment - I2c - Co-Design - System on Chip (SoC) Design - Sensor Fusion - Automotive Ethernet - Logic Analyzer - Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) - Real-Time Operating Systems - Hardware Engineering - Sensor Systems - Statistics - Functional Safety - Hardware Bring-up - Cameras - Embedded Systems - CAN FD - C++ - Data Collection - Oscilloscope - Computer Engineering - Computer Science - Sensor Integration - Radar - Serial Peripheral Interface (Spi) - FreeRTOS - Electrical Engineering - Production Deployment - Hardware Validation - Writing - Bare Metal - Data Pipeline - Device Drivers - Embedded Linux - Firmware - Distributed Systems ## Benefits - 401(k) Plans ## How to Apply [Apply for this position](https://www.foundrole.com/jobs/staff-embedded-engineer-at-uber-01a0d858-efa9-712b-b770-a4c15af5ded2?utm_source=ai_markdown) ## Related - [Browse all companies](https://www.foundrole.com/companies?utm_source=ai_markdown)