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Embedded Software Engineer 2

KnackHook, LLCMossville, IL🇺🇸United StatesPosted 21 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Mossville, IL, United States
Posted
5 days ago
RoboticsC++Python

Job Description

Autonomous Machinery, Embedded C++, Python, System Analysis
Required Education/Experience: 

• Bachelor''s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

Required Qualifications: 

• The hauling application team is responsible for the overall onboard solution (vehicle level) for CLIENT autonomous haulage machines.  
• This position is to work under the direction of the team’s system integration lead.
• Contribute to onboard system designs and decisions
• Identify and evaluate potential solutions
• Analyze value and risk of proposed changes
• Break down solutions into actionable delivery elements
• Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve system level issues
• Design electronic and network architecture for autonomy tech stack used across all hauling autonomy products.
• Document designs and coordinate delivery with partner teams

Required Technical Skills: 

• Experience with development processes
• Experience with autonomous or automated robotics
• Experience with robotic hardware and electronic systems
• Requirements decomposition and solution creation
• Risk and benefit tradeoff analysis
• Technical writing - design documentation
• Troubleshooting

Preferred Technical Skills: 

• Experience with mining, construction, or agricultural machines and methods
• Experience with CLIENT technology products
• Familiarity with product lifecycle
• Data analysis and issue investigation
• Safety frameworks, such as functional safety or SOTIF
• Simulation tools for development and validation
• C++ and Python familiarity
• Development in a Linux environment
• CAN and Ethernet familiarity

Top 3 Skills:

• Robotics and autonomy fundamentals
• Effective collaboration across teams with diverse skills
• Design process - evaluate tradeoffs without bias

Work environment: 

• This role is primarily performed in an office environment.
• Some tasks may include time in laboratory or validation environments.
• Occasional travel to proving grounds or customer sites may be required.

Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate within the hauling team, with process partners, and with SMEs to identify potential solutions and select one.
• The system integration lead assigns a task for a new requirement or issue.
• Analysis may be required to understand the problem or to evaluate benefits and risks.
• Document the selected design and break it down into work items assigned to the appropriate teams.
• Coordinate hardware availability with the component teams, development teams, and validation teams.
• Collaborate with delivery teams as needed during implementation.
• Collaborate with the validation team as they create a test plan.  Support them as needed to triage issues.

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