Principal Software Architect - Infotainment SoCs and SW ecosystem
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Title: Principal Software Architect - Infotainment SoCs and SW ecosystem
Location: Framingham MA
The Client team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Architect to join our dynamic team in the automotive industry. As a Software Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technological landscape of our products, ensuring they meet the highest standards of innovation, performance, and customer satisfaction. This position requires an individual with a blend of deep technical expertise, exceptional customer engagement abilities, and strong leadership skills to foster collaboration across functions and drive successful outcomes for our customers. This software architect will have the following key responsibilities:
- As part of the software architecture team, propose, define, design, and implement automotive software architecture and platforms which provide the abstraction layers that enable us to deliver unique audio experiences in various hardware and software environments.
- Communicate with technical credibility, presenting software platform solutions effectively to targeted OEMs. Influence their technical decisions by showcasing win-win scenarios and reducing OEM's audio software integration complexity.
- Understand automotive industry software-defined vehicle roadmap and help align automotive software architecture and platform direction to service the market.
- Act as an infotainment SoC architecture and software ecosystem technical expert, understand OEM's specific needs and challenges, and provide solutions to address OEM's development pain points and risks. Collaborate closely with the sales and business development teams to ensure alignment with customer expectations.
- Be an influential leader who works cross-functionally to represent technical capabilities, particularly in software, to our OEM customers.
- Leverage software capability, including consumer product software, mobile apps, and cloud services, to bring additional value to the vehicle and our customers.
- Stay abreast of the latest advancements in automotive audio software technologies, evaluating their relevance and potential integration into our products.
Skills & Experience:
- 10+ years of experience developing automotive infotainment software, with extensive experience at the architect level.
- Deep knowledge in infotainment software ecosystems from Hypervisors to embedded Linux to Android Automotive.
- Hands-on knowledge with automotive processor architectures, such as Qualcomm snapdragon SoC, Analog Devices DSPs
- Strong software development skills and knowledge/experience in software engineering best practices (i.e. OOD, modularity, extensibility, reusability and maintainability)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to understand requirements, produce clear and concise technical documentation
- Self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex technical challenges to deliver optimal solutions.
- Project management skills for planning, timing, executing, and reporting
- Automotive industry experience is essential
Education:
BS or MS (preferred) Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering or similar fields