Director of Engineering, TorcOS

Role overview

Lead engineering delivery and organizational development for foundational software used in an autonomous trucking platform. The scope spans embedded operating systems, middleware, drivers, data recording, and base software, with a focus on dependable, safety-critical foundations for compute bring-up, sensor data, and communication across vehicle systems.

Responsibilities

- Set execution strategy, operational priorities, and delivery standards across foundational embedded software teams. - Coordinate with engineering managers, principal engineers, and partner organizations to deliver integrated platform capabilities. - Build effective teams and develop managers and engineers through coaching, mentoring, performance feedback, and career development. - Establish accountability through engineering processes, metrics, and consistent quality practices. - Assess organizational and technical execution, identify roadblocks, and drive resolution across teams. - Support reliable platform integration, including compute bring-up, communication systems, sensor data flows, and software releases.

Requirements

- Senior engineering leadership experience delivering complex software platforms and leading managers and multidisciplinary teams. - Understanding of embedded platform and middleware engineering, including the needs of safety-critical systems. - Experience creating scalable engineering processes and maintaining standards for testing, observability, reliability, and performance. - Ability to partner across engineering and business functions, communicate clearly, and improve organizational effectiveness. - Experience supporting incident response, root-cause analysis, security, or compliance work.

Nice to have

- Background in autonomous vehicles or automotive engineering, or experience leading embedded Linux or middleware teams. - Familiarity with device drivers, board support packages, hardware abstraction, AUTOSAR, microcontrollers, or robotic communication frameworks. - Experience with system bring-up, bootloaders, flashing tools, platform integration, or large-scale sensor data recording.

Benefits and work setup

Remote candidates in the Eastern or Central U.S. time zones are considered. The stated U.S. hiring range is $226,400–$271,700, with a bonus component and stock options. Benefits include employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums, a 401(k) match, flexible scheduling, paid vacation, and life and AD&D insurance.