Operating at the intersection of deep technical expertise and product ownership, the Director is responsible for the end-to-end engineering lifecycle,from early feasibility and architectural definition to production release and over-the-air (OTA) enhancements. By scaling the SPE framework, this leader ensures that every feature is technically sound, safe, and delivered with the rigor required for zero field failures.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Feature Lifecycle Management: Own and drive the end-to-end technical execution of the IVI portfolio. Ensure technical feasibility, integration, and quality across all vehicle milestones, maintaining a deep architectural understanding of system behaviors (SOA, CAN, and cloud extensions).

• High-Level Design & Traceability: Lead the translation and traceability between Product, Systems, and UX. Oversee the creation of Feature HLDs and system APIs, ensuring they align with platform constraints and vehicle configurations.

• Technical Collaboration & "Product Truth": Act as the engineering lead within the Triad partnership (Product, Design, Technical Strategy). Institutionalize architecture and design reviews to confirm specification completeness and technical alignment before implementation begins.

• Partner & Ecosystem Engineering: Serve as the executive technical liaison to external technology partners. Oversee API integration, feature contract negotiations, and compliance with internal architectural standards.

• Agile Governance & PI Planning: Lead the technical input for Program Increment (PI) Planning. Coordinate development OKRs, document engineering commitments, and ensure that technical gaps or open architecture issues are visible and tracked at the leadership level.

• Risk Engineering & Mitigation: Proactively identify and mitigate architecture-level and integration risks. Lead Change Request (CR) impact assessments, providing technical cost/timing estimates and risk analysis across affected ECUs and software layers.

• Defect Triage & Quality Strategy: Establish the strategy for defect root cause isolation. Prioritize and assign complex defects based on platform impact and customer experience, ensuring the backlog is technically scoped and prioritized for the engineering teams.

• Full-Stack Validation & Sign-Off: Accountable for the technical sign-off of feature releases. Ensure robust validation across simulated environments (HIL/SIL) and in-vehicle testing, covering everything from UI responsiveness to middleware and actuator-level outputs.

• Continuous Improvement & OTA Strategy: Lead the delivery of over-the-air (OTA) enhancements and performance improvements, utilizing platform diagnostics and customer data to drive post-launch excellence.

• Executive Visibility & Metrics: Maintain technical dashboards that track feature coverage, architecture readiness, and open risks. Report to senior leadership with a focus on engineering-level gaps and proposed technical mitigations (Sagas/Epics/Stories).

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience: 10+ years in automotive software or consumer electronics, with a focus on vehicle embedded development, HMI and Infotainment systems.

• Leadership: Proven success as a "Leader of Leaders," managing large engineering organizations through high-stakes vehicle program deliveries.

• Technical Breadth: Deep expertise in embedded systems architecture, cloud interactions, and the translation of UX intent into implementation tasks.

• Systems Engineering: Mastery of requirement decomposition, API contract negotiation, and cross-stack integration.

• Communication: Exceptional ability to align senior stakeholders across Design, Product, and Safety (ASO) on technical execution paths.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data-Driven Prioritization: Experience using DTUX or similar analytics to drive engineering prioritization and feature enhancements.

• Safety Expertise: Advanced knowledge of Functional Safety (FuSa) and ISO 26262 standards.

• Advanced Degree: Master’s degree in Engineering or an MBA.

• Ecosystem Experience: Direct experience managing technical relationships with major silicon or software ecosystem partners.

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As a technical leader, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of vehicle interaction and personalization, setting the architectural direction for the project. This role requires a deep mastery of embedded systems, connectivity, diagnostics, and a talent for integrating third-party solutions. Strong leadership and collaboration skills are essential for success in this position.

Responsibilities:

• Lead Firmware Development: Lead the design and implementation of application firmware for connected vehicle devices, focusing on optimizing performance and ensuring robust security. This includes architectural design, code implementation, and ongoing maintenance.

• System Integration: Oversee the integration of various subsystems, including those provided by 3rd party collaborators and vendors, into the overall project. This involves close collaboration with external partners to review firmware specifications, provide design guidance, and ensure seamless interoperability.

• Design and implement end-to-end diagnostics and telemetry features. This includes developing updates for embedded systems and supporting Android applications/bridges, as well as driving full-stack validation from the device to the cloud.

• Ensure continuous improvements, high performance, and robust issue resolution for all developed functionalities, both before and after product launch.

• Connectivity and Communication: Design and implement firmware architecture and communication protocols between the modular devices and other systems, including in-vehicle networks and mobile devices. Ensure secure and reliable data exchange between different components.

• Testing and Validation: Collaborate closely with the validation team to develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate firmware functionality, performance, stability, and adherence to requirements. This includes defining test cases, developing test scripts, and analyzing test results. Active participation in all testing phases, from unit testing to system-level testing, is expected.

• Continuous Integration: Integrate project source code into the Continuous Integration (CI) software build infrastructure to automate the build process, perform automated testing, and ensure code quality.

• Documentation: Maintain clear and concise documentation of firmware architecture, design decisions, and code implementation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

• Significant experience in embedded software/firmware development, ideally in the automotive or consumer electronics industry.

• Proven experience architecting and leading firmware development for complex embedded systems.

• Strong programming skills in C/C++. Experience with other relevant languages (e.g., Python) is beneficial.

• Deep understanding of RTOS concepts and experience with RTOS platforms.

• Experience with communication protocols such as Ethernet, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

• Proficiency in hardware debugging tools (JTAG debuggers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).

• Experience with software version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment and lead technical discussions.

• Experience with over-the-air (OTA) updates is a plus.

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