Small electric vehicles for people and goods, driven and autonomous
ALSO designs and manufactures small electric vehicles, spun out from Rivian in 2025. The tech stack—MATLAB, Simulink, C++, embedded systems (FreeRTOS, LVGL), and cloud infrastructure (AWS, PostgreSQL)—reflects deep automotive and firmware engineering. Hiring is heavily weighted toward engineering (45 staff/senior roles) with active projects spanning motor control, actuator design, OTA updates, and telemetry ingestion, signaling a company in early-stage hardware iteration and manufacturing ramp.
Notable leadership hires: Vehicle Firmware Lead
ALSO builds electric vehicles positioned as a foundational category shift toward smaller, smarter transportation for urban and last-mile mobility. The company was incubated within Rivian and combines automotive design with embedded software, autonomous sensing, and vertically integrated EV technology. Based in Palo Alto with 201–500 employees, ALSO is actively hiring across engineering and manufacturing, with current projects focused on prototype builds, motor control algorithms, electromechanical design, and OTA validation—typical of a pre-production vehicle company moving from lab to pilot manufacturing.
Core stack includes MATLAB, Simulink, Python, C++, CATIA for CAD, Ansys for simulation, FreeRTOS and LVGL for embedded systems, AWS for cloud infrastructure, and PostgreSQL/MySQL for data. Recently adopting React.
Active projects include advanced motor control algorithms, electromechanical actuator design, OTA software updates, telemetry data systems, manufacturing test fixtures, and prototype builds for next-generation light electric vehicles.
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