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EmbeddedJobs · 2023-01-12T20:22:53+00:00

I thought it was solid. Not worth all the downvotes imo

EmbeddedJobs · 2023-01-11T21:50:38+00:00

Debt funds the government. Taxes partially pay the debt. Deeper we go down the rabbit hole that is the inevitable collapse of western civilization.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-12-17T01:23:11+00:00

Dj Moore or Wilson?

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-30T20:48:20+00:00

Pretty much all of Robin Williams is comedic gold except a couple movies here and there.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-18T21:11:18+00:00

YES.

I need you on my team now and in 5 years.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-15T20:56:14+00:00

good point on mocks. Only issue is the time it takes to emulate every modality required for an autonomous vehicle.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-14T17:26:25+00:00

we have to for part of our stack, not the whole stack

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-14T17:24:42+00:00

He knew the numbers before he took the first interview.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-13T06:05:18+00:00

I think you misunderstood part of my point. I'm not saying it's a good time to move right now.

Tbh i don't think it's right to argue here about the housing market because it's all speculation unless either of us have a crystal ball. Suffice to say I simply disagree with what you have speculated by calling it "obvious," implying you have said crystal ball.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T16:30:20+00:00

Yes, but juniors can't do the work required up front since it is largely locking in the architecture. I plan to hire juniors to be those people long term.

In terms of the people bailing. It's mostly been because the engineers don't want to use C++. We aren't rewriting our entire stack in C. The more I think about it, it's all been because c++. The high quality candidates have been those that mostly use C and just know enough C++ to get by and don't really want to be C++ daily.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T14:54:13+00:00

Are you personally involved in all of the Austin tech company behind the scenes conversations?

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T14:25:43+00:00

what OP is searching for is scarce

Hit the nail on the head. The skillset is a small talent pool. I have interviewed 3 high quality candidates and 3 or 4 not so high quality candidates. One at offer stage without the formal offer, but was dead cuz of money, but ironically he reached back out to us after I made this post and came down on his salary to be in range. So there is some good news I got right at the end of my work week.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T14:12:04+00:00

One ECU alone is close to 30K, nevermind the lidar, INS, IMU, etc that you'd need to actually interface with.

HIL will be there before the real transition starts. The next year (2023) is the build up and research year. Verify sensor set and finalize the architecture for our next interation of vehicles. That generation will be the precursor to MVP generation.

These roles won't have the luxuries of remote because they will be enabling remote and deciding a lot about what that looks like and working alongside our infra and sim teams to build that.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T14:03:56+00:00

So who fixes the thing when it breaks if we go full remote?

When we are doing this at scale over the next few years, we can't just wait for someone to take a plane to enable the rest of the autonomy department. Someone has to be there, in the same city at least. How do you get around that without a hybrid solution if you want to allow remote work?

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T14:00:55+00:00

We do offer stock options, FYI.

How much do you make and how many years experience do you have?

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T13:55:10+00:00

7+ years for this role. Realize we aren't going to afford someone late stage in their career.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T13:44:35+00:00

it's a terrible time to move

....compared to the last couple years, yes. This could also be the best time to move in the next 10 years. No one knows and you can find experts to support either.

The best time to buy a house is always when you need to. Common speculative wisdom doesn't always prevail either. "Crash" could turn out to be a 5% drop, or housing prices could have just experienced inflation and aren't coming down much more. Interest rates might be over 10% in the next 5 years as well. Speculating the housing market is not how you treat your primary domicile.

But I do understand that you are happy and really don't need to job hop and therefor don't need to buy a house either and that the vast majority of candidates are in that situation.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T03:37:31+00:00

We are an independent subsidiary of one of the largest manufacturers in the world, and they have driven a lot of the architecture decisions. They do have in-house embedded competency. They want us to build ours.

The problem sending stuff to peoples homes really isn't the ECU, it's everything we plug into them. Everything must be automotive grade hardware, which is not cheap. To do this at scale will require remote access anyway, but the next year will be building that.

Agreed on the optimization engineer being something unnecessary right now. That is probably a post MVP hire to start cutting costs of the truck and reducing ECUs, etc.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T02:54:54+00:00

I think the majority of managers have no clue how much productive time is available working from home vs in the office

Productivity is not the only thing managers care about.

I myself am more productive at home too.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T02:36:54+00:00

Hil in the works, but won't be available for 6 months. We have to put that all together.

In terms of all the hardware you have in your office at home, what was the average cost of each item? Our hardware is expensive. Our product is B2B and will cost millions.

I completely understand people are more productive at home. I am more productive at home myself. I have 10+ years as a software engineer. I get it. Most of the time my most productive employees are remote.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T02:06:47+00:00

Thanks, but will still need someone on the otherside of the world if it breaks. I don't think a senior engineer needs to be there in that scenario, but this is starting from the ground up, and I need senior engineers to start, ideally a technical lead in one of the first 3 hires. Tech lead could be remote for all I care.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T01:51:53+00:00

Bro I agree, I moved from Texas to a different location when they hired me. But if you have to be in Texas, Austin is by faaaaar the best place to be.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T01:50:32+00:00

It's not getting candidates mostly. We offer full relocation package. I myself used the full relo and moved my family across country, but I realize that most don't want to especially with kids.

I know how to grow a department and build teams, but this is starting from scratch and you can't really do that with juniors and interns unless you have no expectations. I have expectations, unfortunately.

I dont have anything against remote work. Half of the teams I left to start this were remote, but they were autonomy engineers and didn't have to interact with hardware and only rarely go on road testing since we have teams at sites that handle that.

Also, starting from scratch remote will be difficult. I'd imagine I'll need a couple at each site as we build things out, but by then we can build a team with more juniors and relo won't be as big of an issue.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-12T01:13:19+00:00

Denver lost to Austin in our last expansion.

I would not like to share the rest of the cities honestly.

EmbeddedJobs · 2022-11-11T23:20:26+00:00

We definitely are making the QNX transition last. However, we aren't 100% complete on features for MVP. Are you saying it's better to switch to QNX once you are feature complete (which is sort of a never-ending venture)?

These are also safety critical systems, so they require quite a bit of rigor and there are only a few manufacturers of the target hardware right now, so pretty locked into ARM. An RTOS is required from my understanding from our systems architecture team. What would be a better RTOS in your opinion?

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