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PACCAR is best known for its truck brands: Kenworth, Peterbilt, and DAF.\nThe PACCAR Silicon Valley Innovation Center, located in Sunnyvale, California, focuses on advancing emerging technologies for all of PACCAR’s businesses. Our office is spacious and modern, with a private work café, high ceilings, and several truck bays.\nIf you are passionate about transportation and technology-including autonomy, advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS), electrification, and connectivity-PACCAR is the place for you. Let’s get started!\nRequisition Summary\nWe are a tight knit team of engineers that value collaboration and results. We are looking for an ambitious, enthusiastic, and self-directed Senior Software Engineer to complement our unique skillsets. If you have a proven track record of excellence, come join us!\nYour main responsibility will be to write, maintain, and deploy code for our vehicle-technologies such as telematics, sensor data, and system architectures. This will include both hands-on technical work as well as the guidance and supervision of external resources. To make this happen, you need to be a utility player who understands version control, defect management, documentation, and software best practices for production code deployment. You’ll write software for both the truck and in the cloud, so you need to understand partitioning, offloading, and edge computing.\nThis is a unique role with great visibility within PACCAR. If you are the right candidate, it would position you well to become a thought-leader for modern software practices within PACCAR. Because we are an innovation center, we are able to move quickly and try a lot of different approaches. In addition, we’ve built strong relationships with PACCAR groups around the world, which provides nice opportunities for collaboration and learning.\nThis position is located in Sunnyvale, CA\nJob Responsibilities\nDesign, develop, test, and deploy software solutions for vehicle-connected technologies, both on edge devices (trucks) and cloud platforms.\nWrite clean, maintainable, and efficient code following software best practices and coding standards.\nManage and maintain version control repositories using Git/GitHub, ensuring proper branching, merging, and release management.\nSupervise and guide external development resources to ensure alignment with project goals and quality standards.\nCreate and maintain comprehensive documentation for software design, development processes, and deployment procedures.\nStay current with emerging technologies and industry trends, identifying opportunities to incorporate modern software practices into PACCAR’s development workflows.\nContribute to the continuous improvement of development processes, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools to enhance team productivity and product quality.\nChampion software quality by enforcing testing standards including unit, integration, and system testing.\nSupport deployment and monitoring of software in production environments and respond to operational issues as needed.\nRequired Qualifications\nA bachelor’s degree in computer science or another relevant field is required.\n7+ years of industry experience in software development, of which at least 3 years are in building and deploying production embedded software.\nAdaptability and creativity with the ability to think outside of the box.\nInterest in, passion for, or curiosity about trucks, automobiles, and technology.\nAbility to self-direct, even in the face of ambiguity.\nA collaborative attitude with a willingness to work in a small team environment.\nA willingness to grow personally and professionally while utilizing new engineering processes and techniques to be resourceful in solving complex technical problems.\nPreferred Qualifications\nA master’s degree is highly preferred. \nProgramming languages such as C, C++, Rust, and Java in the context of real-time operating systems and environments including Android, QNX, SOME/IP, and related technologies.\nExperience partitioning and allocating processes into edge computing devices.\nSoftware architecture, data structures, containerization, profiling, and optimization.\nEnabling automotive technologies including sensors, computer vision, and signal processing.\nExposure to CAN, Ethernet, and wireless communication protocols.\nUnderstanding of full stack development with JavaScript, Node.js and database management\nGeneral Description of all Benefits\nAs a U.S. PACCAR employee, you have a full range of benefit options including:\n401k with up to a 5% company match\nFully funded pension plan that provides monthly benefits after retirement\nComprehensive paid time off - minimum of 10 paid vacation days (additional days are provided with additional seniority/years of service), 12 paid holidays, and sick time\nTuition reimbursement for continued education\nMedical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family\nFlexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings account (HSA)\nPaid short-and long-term disability programs\nLife and accidental death and dismemberment insurance\nEAP services including wellness plans, estate planning, financial counseling and more\nThis position is also eligible for a holiday gift.\nAdditional Job Board Information\nAt PACCAR, we value talent and promote growth and development. We carefully consider numerous compensation factors including your education, training, or experience. A reasonable salary range estimate for the Senior Software Engineeris $135,330 - $211,770, which is comprised of a 30% cost-of-living adjustment for California residency.Additionally, this role is eligible for the full range of benefit options listed above.\nPACCAR is an E-Verify & Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability corporation. 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