CareerPlan

Onboard Vehicle Network Engineer

BostonFull-time$149k2026-10-14 → 2026-11-11
Hybrid

Core

Design, evolve, and maintain the onboard vehicle network architecture for autonomous vehicles, ensuring high-throughput, low-latency, and resilient communication across compute nodes, sensors, and controllers.

Role type

Senior IC embedded network engineer

Builds

Onboard network topology, protocol stacks, monitoring tools, and OTA update strategies for autonomous vehicle platforms

Domain

Autonomous vehicles / Embedded systems / Automotive networking

Required skills

Embedded network architecture design, Network protocol implementation (Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, CAN/CAN-FD), C++ programming, Network security policy design, QoS and traffic shaping, Network telemetry tooling, System-level diagnostics

Preferred skills

AUTOSAR Classic/Adaptive, DDS, ROS/ROS2, Automotive switch hardware (Broadcom, Marvell), NVIDIA DRIVE AGX, Linux networking internals, eBPF, ISO/SAE 21434, Bazel

Technologies

C++, Ethernet, TCP/IP, UDP, CAN/CAN-FD, AUTOSAR, DDS, ROS/ROS2, Linux, eBPF, Bazel, NVIDIA DRIVE AGX

Responsibilities

Design and evolve onboard network topology and hardware interfaces; Implement network protocol stacks and messaging layers; Develop software for network routing, monitoring, and fault detection; Partner with hardware teams to select network components; Establish QoS policies and network segmentation strategies; Build telemetry tools for network health observation; Diagnose and resolve complex system-level networking issues; Define OTA firmware update strategies for network hardware.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC