Software Staff Engineer

Description

General Responsibilities:

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic software design Staff Engineer to work independently hands on and lead a technical team in developing an advanced automotive System on Chip (SoC) software platform. This platform will operate on a high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) such as Nvidia Orin/Thor, Qualcomm Snapdragon, Renesas RCAR Gen5, Texas Instruments, NXP, AMD and Intel. The software platform will use hypervisor technology and support guest operating systems such as Blackberry QNX, Adaptive AUTOSAR, and various Linux distributions.

Job Responsibilities:

Includes the following (other duties may be documented and assigned by local management and some duties may not apply dependent upon the requirements of the position at each specific Astemo, AM site and/or the strengths of the employee and the needs of the company):

Technology Development: Ensure the platform supports standard SoC interfaces including serial boot, PCIe, DDR, Flash ROM, MMU, Ethernet, and USB. Integrate and support standard automotive sensors, with a focus on AD/ADAS, such as cameras, radar, lidar, sonar, and inertia sensing. Manage the development of image processing capabilities within the platform. Implement system partitioning, hypervisors, and container engine technology to enhance platform flexibility and security.

Team Leadership: Lead a team of software engineers to develop an automotive SoC software platform, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. Encourage collaboration, creativity, and innovation within the team. Conduct regular team meetings, performance reviews, and provide mentorship and guidance to team members. Manage project timelines, resource allocation, and budget to meet project goals.

Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware engineers, product engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure the software platform meets performance, safety, and regulatory standards.

Risk Management: Assess risks and uncertainties associated with software development initiatives, proactively identifying potential roadblocks and developing mitigation strategies. Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.

Qualifications:

The Ideal candidate will:

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
• Deep understanding of SDV Enablers, Zonal Network, high-performance central compute modules, automated driving, AI, machine learning, perception modules, connected mobility, MLOps, and OTA updates.
• Technical experience with:
  • SoC architecture: Qualcomm SA8650, Renesas RCAR, Nvidia Orin, TI, MobilEye.
  • SoC Hardware: Ethernet, USB, UFS, Display Port, PCIe, QUP (Qualcomm Universal Peripheral), UART, SPI, I2C, Inter Core Communication, Camera, CPU Kryo, ARM Cortex R-52, Hexagon Tensor Processor, Server, Accelerators, DDR, Flash ROM, MMU.
  • Software: POSIX OS, QNX, Board support packages, middleware, hypervisor, container engines, and AD/ADAS technology stacks.
  • ADAS Features: Good understanding of Image processing, Image transfer, Video Input and Video output handling in SoC platform software development.
• Strong understanding of Classic and Adaptive AUTOSAR software architecture and good experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Strong Understanding of CPU/GPU architectures, data structures, OS internals, multi-threading, inter-process communications, memory management techniques.
• Strong expertise in embedded C/C++ programming and systems architecture and development and debugging of applications or device drivers on embedded Linux/QNX.
• Extensive hands-on experience in BSP porting and device driver internals and experience in writing interfaces to PAL/ HAL level and middleware level.
• Good to have NVIDIA Drive OS experience and Hypervisor virtual platforms
• Good to have NVIDIA platform Foundation services runtime software stack
• Good understanding of Linux and Android middleware native components and nice to have multimedia middleware components exposure.
• Prototype on evaluation and first sample hardware to drive software architecture decisions while properly leveraging hardware capabilities
• Provide software support and bring-up of hardware modules and developing bootloaders, drivers, or BSP in Linux/QNX/RTOS
• Experience developing for Uboot, secure boot, custom bootloaders, software download, over-the-air update, or in-field software update solutions
• Experience developing drivers and debugging common interfaces such as I2C, SPI, UART, eMMC, PCIe, SDIO, CAN-FD, and Ethernet
• Experience with common SoC hardware such as WDT, DMA, Timers, and accelerators (Video, AES, SHA, RNG, etc.)
• BSP for Automotive Infotainment SoCs, Power Management, Safety Island, Platform Security, Platform OTA, Logging, Diagnostics, Multimedia related components like Camera, Audio, Video, Display, Touchscreens for any OEMs
• Integration using tools such as QNX, Safety Linux, or Safe RTOS, Classic AUTOSAR.
• V-Model, ASPICE, MISRA, ISO26262, Cybersecurity and Agile framework.
• Familiar with crypto algorithms, and cryptographic authentication method.
• Ability to read schematics, electrical block diagrams, and IC datasheets.

Additionally, the ability to work independently with minimal direction is required as are strong verbal and written communication skills. Experience with PCs and application software, such as MS Office tools, is also required.

Education: Bachelor or Master's degree in in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Experience: 10+ years of experience with a minimum of 5 years of SoC platform (BSP, POSIX, Adaptive Platform, SoC Drivers...etc.) development experience and 5+ years of experience in automotive, AD/ADAS, or other embedded system low-level domains.

Job level is determined by various factors such as organization size, responsibility, career stage, and capabilities.

Supervisory Responsibilities: leading, building and mentoring the efforts of engineers who are responsible for sub-project activities.

Working conditions:

• Physical Demands: Required to sit or stand for long periods of time. The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

• Travel: Domestic and international may be required as needed. The candidate will occasionally need to travel to multiple global locations to support project development.

Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)-Females/Minorities/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

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