Technical Lead – Rust (Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems)

Job Title: Technical Lead – Rust (Safety-Critical Real-Time Systems)
Job Location: Mountain View, CA, 94040
​Job Duration: 5 months on W2

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 safety-critical embedded software using Rust.
Develop low-level platform software, middleware, drivers, and system services.
Build high-performance real-time 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.
Develop software compliant with ISO 26262

Support safety analysis activities:

• FMEA
• FMEDA
• FTA
• DFA
• Real-Time Systems

Design solutions for:

• Hard real-time systems
• Interrupt-driven architectures
• Multi-threaded systems
• Time-sensitive networking
• Analyze worst case execution time (WCET).
• Develop interrupt-safe and lock-free software components.
• Ensure deterministic system behavior.
• Security & Reliability
• Implement secure boot and trusted execution concepts.
• Apply secure coding practices.
• Design memory-safe software architectures.
• Perform threat analysis and mitigate cybersecurity risks.

Integration & Validation

• Integrate Rust components with:
• C/C++
• AUTOSAR
• Linux
• QNX
• 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
• Bare-metal development
• MCU and MPU architecture
• ARM Cortex-M / Cortex-R / Cortex-A
• Memory-mapped 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 / CAN-FD
• Ethernet
• SOME/IP
• DDS
• BLE
• UWB
• TCP/IP
• Safety & Quality
• ISO 26262 ASIL-B/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
• Mixed-criticality systems
• Multi-core safety architectures
• Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
• Cryptography
• Formal methods
• Rust safety-qualified toolchains

Education:

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

Experience:

• For Technical Lead
• 8+ years embedded software development
• 3+ years leading architecture teams
• Safety-certified product experience

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Strong C/C++ background transitioning to Rust
• Experience delivering ASIL-B to ASIL-D systems
• Deep understanding of real-time constraints
• Comfortable reviewing and justifying unsafe Rust usage
• Excellent debugging and system-level problem-solving skills
• Experience building software for vehicle ECUs, controllers, gateways, cockpit platforms, or safety domains