Location: San Francisco, CA

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Software Engineering

Embark Trucks is America's Longest-Running Self-Driving Truck Program and is bringing autonomous freight mainstream. As covered by the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes, TechCrunch and and other outlets, Embark went public via a $5 billion SPAC deal in November 2021, and is listed on Nasdaq under the symbol EMBK. Embark is headquartered in San Francisco, CA with operations centers in Fontana, CA and Houston, TX, moving freight daily using our purpose-built transfer hubs. Embark has aligned itself with [truck manufacturers](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/embark-universal- interface-accelerates-integration-of-self-driving-technology-across-major- truck-oem-platforms-301259787.html), shippers, and carriers to integrate our technology into the freight ecosystem, pursuing a [business model](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/embark-launches-partner- development-program-to-bring-embark-driver-to- market-301264418.html#::text=Embark%20launches%20its%20Partnership%20Development,on%20select%20US%20freight%20lanes.) where fleets own and operate Embark trucks. This is an incredibly exciting time for autonomous vehicles and our team is looking to grow.

Embark’s Product team sets the direction and priorities for our growing Engineering organization. We build close relationships with truck drivers and engineers alike so that we can empathize with them and understand the self- driving problem as deeply as possible. We analyze on-road data with a fine- toothed comb and develop system requirements from first principles. We develop strategies and roadmaps for the team using metrics that we build from the ground up. We understand we have a responsibility to communicate these plans and our progress to the company to keep everyone accountable and ultimately accelerate the deployment of safe self-driving trucks.

At Embark we strive to support all major decisions with data. As a software engineer working on product metrics, you will be expected to synthesize these needs and develop solutions to enable the team to make informed decisions. Your input and understanding of these solutions will be crucial to the final outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product managers and engineers to brainstorm, prototype and implement metrics for AV systems and subsystems across Planning, Perception and Hardware.
• Using both research from industry and a first principles physics or data-based approach, build novel behavioral-level metrics to quantify the performance of our self-driving trucks.
• Evaluate, architect and deploy new database systems and data pipelines to extract, characterize and store scenario information from the terabytes of driving data that our vehicles log everyday.
• Build APIs to enable advanced queries for metrics and other scenarios of interest for applications like machine learning, project planning and Operations resource allocation.
• Understand and communicate the tradeoffs of different measures of performance for the vehicle and its subsystems used to inform Engineering priorities, staffing and timelines.
• Build dashboards and visualizations in order to convey the progress of our system to a variety of stakeholders across the company.

Preferred experience:

• 4+ years in software engineering.
• Significant experience with Python, C++, Go or similar.
• BS, MS or PhD in computer science, engineering, or equivalent real-world experience.
• Experience working with a complex software or robotics system.

Benefits

• A full time, competitive salary with equity
• Flexible paid vacation from the start
• 100% of the base insurance option covered for Medical, Dental, and Vision and a buy-up option for other plans
• Life insurance covered by Embark
• Access to a Flexible Spending Account & 401K Plan
• Snacks & catered lunches
• Work in a fast-growing startup revolutionizing transportation as we know it

At Embark we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Embark Trucks, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Embark in the Press:

[The Wall Street Journal – Embark Announces $5.2 Billion Deal to Go Public](https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-truck-startup-embark-to-go- public-in-5-2-billion-spac-deal-11624442400?mod=e2tw)

[Business Insider – Embark's Original Pitch Deck](https://www.businessinsider.com/read-self-driving-truck-startup-embarks- original-pitch-deck-2021-8)

Former “Mythbuster” Jamie Hyneman Hitches a Ride in an Embark Self-Driving Truck

[CNBC - Our Partner Development Program](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/08/ab- inbev-werner-enterprises-to-test-embark-autonomous-trucks.html)

[Forbes - The Embark Universal Interface](https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbishop1/2021/04/11/embark- carving-path-to-market-with-universal-truck-interface-new-fleet-partners/)

[Navigating Highway Work Zones with the Embark Driver](https://medium.com/embark-trucks/navigating-highway-work-zones-with- the-embark-driver-6ab8c95822a9?source=collection_home---4------ 5-----------------------)

A few company highlights:

[Embark Blog - Series C and Transfer Hubs](https://medium.com/embark- trucks/embark-announces-70m-series-c-led-by-tiger-global-14f09a4ac77)

[Forbes - 70 Million Dollar Series C ](https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/09/25/self-driving-startup- embark-raises-70-million-opens-freight-hubs-for-robot-big-rigs/#483b2d35653a)

Video - Day in the life of a self-driving truck

Embark Blog - Disengagement Report

[30 Million Dollar Series B led by Sequoia](https://medium.com/embark- trucks/embark-announces-30-million-series-b-led-by-sequoia-394844f29c4c)