# Sr Staff Engineer, Automotive Embedded Software

Aptera Motors is dedicated to building a future where every journey is powered by the sun. We specialize in creating solar electric vehicles that revolutionize the way we travel, providing sustainable and efficient transportation solutions. Company Culture is built on transparency, ethical treatment of one another, a bias for action, and leading by example. Sr Staff Engineer, Automotive Embedded Software Carlsbad, California | Engineering | Full-time About the role Seeking an Embedded Software Engineertoarchitect,design, implement,debugandvalidatecode for Aptera’sElectronic Control Units. Thismayinclude supportingSW design and development inthermal system, vehicle fault management,vehicle software architecture,automotivestandards compliance,informingECU selection for design revisions, interfacing withengineeringservices vendors,andbalancingstartupcompanyneeds withregulatory and market expectations. What you'll do Inform and Direct Vehicle Software architecture Synthesize Requirements to design, code, document and debug embedded software Analyze Schematics and HW component data sheets to write embedded SW drivers for them Bring up, test and validate new circuit board designs using

- **Id**: 734410
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/aptera-sr-staff-engineer-automotive-embedded-software>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Carlsbad, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-22T19:37:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T07:57:52Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 170
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3215
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Automotive Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 669530
- **Name**: Aptera
- **Domain**: aptera.us
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/aptera-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 132000
- **Max usd**: 243000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 563

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Battery Management Systems** — Optional: yes
- **Jira** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 170

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T10:36:37Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.398
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 170
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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