Senior Embedded Software Engineer

The ideal candidate will take a lead in the creation of embedded software and hardware that is deployed in various IVI test systems and development tools. These development systems & tools are distributed globally to engineering teams across Ford and our development partners. Projects vary from year to year. Current projects will be utilized in the ongoing development & testing of the next generation SYNC Infotainment system, embedded modem, vehicle cloud connectivity, mobile app development & integration testing, as well as multiple additional In-Vehicle Infotainment development projects.

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• embedded hardware and software platforms; that are used by production development engineers to support In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) hardware and software feature development and validation efforts.

• Provide technical leadership to an experienced engineering team, interface with customers, technical management, and cross-disciplinary engineers to resolve technical issues.

• Provide technical expertise to management on system level solutions that overcome engineering challenges, while optimally balancing cost, schedule, and technical design integrity.

• Partner with our engineering teams to lead design, development, debugging and testing of platform software for complex Linux/Android based systems that combine media processing and high-speed interfaces.

• Mentor and train junior Systems Engineers in generating key deliverables to further quality and cost deliverables.

• Provide day to day leadership/participation in code reviews, ensuring alignment to coding standards, ensuring software quality requirement, contribute to gathering user requirements and creating functional specifications, troubleshoot and debug defects as reported by users.

• Demonstrate a strong focus to establishment and compliance of agile development practices.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field with 5+ years of relevant industry experience.

• 5+ years of experience with embedded software design and developing production software in C/C++/Python and bash scripting.

• 5+ years hands on development experience with practical experience and knowledge of 8-32-bit embedded SoC/ processor architecture is essential.

• 5+ years of experience with and strong knowledge of C/C++/Object oriented programming languages is essential (e.g. data types, memory management, peripheral device drivers, conditional statements, pointers, structures, etc.).

• 3+ years of Linux kernel device driver development for block or character drivers is required (USB/PCIe etc. is a big plus).

• 3+ years of experience debugging HW using standard lab instrumentation such as oscilloscopes, logic/protocol analyzers, signal generators.

• 3+ years of experience in networking particularly in Service Oriented Architecture, SOME/IP, socket adaptor and Ethernet.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills is essential to work in a cross functional team of engineers (embedded/Hardware/Model based Development).

• Experience with technical writing, authoring formal engineering documentation, architecture diagrams, test procedures, reports.

• Ability to work closely and collaborate with continuous integration teams for resolve issues/dependencies and deliver software releases.

• Exposure to FPGA system design/development using Verilog HDL for integration, synthesis and optimization of existing designs is required.

Preferred Requirements

• Master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field with 8+ years of relevant industry experience.

• Experience with RTOS/Linux kernel development, POSIX systems, Linux device drivers and device trees and embedded build system (buildroot/yocto).

• Experience working with video capture APIs/frameworks such as V4L2, eglStream OpenGL etc.

• Familiarity with video interface standards & encoding protocols such as Display port, MIPI-CSI, H.264/H.265 etc.

• Strong debugging/trouble-shooting skills of Embedded Linux systems.

• Experience reading electrical schematics and device part data sheets.

• Experience with unit level and system level design and development.

• Experience with Agile Scrum development methodologies with common workflow tools (e.g. Confluence, git, JIRA, Jenkins).

Requisition ID : 21757