BSW Sr. Staff Engineer (xOTA & Diagnostics)

Build your brand. Tell your story. Take advantage of a rare opportunity to start from the ground up and build something great. We are looking for technology game changers to lead Stellantis into a fundamental transformation within the automotive industry. Technology is going to disrupt the automotive industry significantly in the next decade and our organization is seeking high potential candidates to transform the company with a focus on the customer experience.

Stellantis' Product Development and Technology Group (PDT) was established to build the most innovative products and service experiences in the latest frontier of Automotive Technology. As part of that foundation, we are seeking experienced and passionate engineers to lead the software development activities within the base software over-the-air (OTA), and Diagnostics team in the PDT organization at Stellantis. This person will be part of the Base Software Engineering (BSWE) team that is responsible for the design and development of OTA (Firmware, Application, Maps) and diagnostics platform application software features for next generation vehicle controllers. These software features will cover all major domains like autonomous driving, body, powertrain and infotainment. The team will be responsible for all future development and innovation related to these features.

Seeking an experienced professional with a minimum of 10+ years in the automotive infotainment domain to lead OTA software development activities. The role requires expertise in C++, Java, Kotlin, JNI, QNX/Linux/Android, Network and communication protocols, and development processes.

Key Responsibilities as a Senior Staff Engineer will be:

• Design and develop code for safety critical applications using Java or C++ 14 and above or equivalent
• Being a key contributor within the team, moderating the solution of technical issues across disciplines globally
• Thinking and acting across disciplines and finding high quality solutions
• Evaluate and integrate new open-source technologies into applications, considering factors such as performance, security, and compatibility
• Technological alignment with all stakeholders
• Providing technical guidance and coaching

You will be part of a global SW driven engineering organization with a modern state of the art agile culture. Collaboration is key.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics, or Computer Science.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in automotive software development using C++/Java.
• Extensive experience in the development of vehicle features in at least one domain
• Experience with developing platform diagnostics for ECU's (using OBD, Service Tools or OTA)
• Good understanding of functional chains on vehicle level
• Familiarity of Automotive Product Development Process like ASPICE and ISO 26262
• Analytical and interdisciplinary thinking, problem solving skills
• Ability to abstract and simplify
• Ability to recognize problems on one's own initiative, to work out and implement solutions
• Self-motivated and drive for results
• Self-reliant, well-structured and organized working style
• Very good communication skills and the ability to interface with stakeholders
• Good team working skills in a global environment
• Willing to travel including domestic / international up to 20%

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical, Electronics, or Computer Science.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing safe and secure software solutions for complex real-time embedded platforms, heterogeneous and distributed architectures
• Deep knowledge of system-level compute, memory and IO processing, inter-processor communication, performance characterization and optimizations
• Hands-on experience working with AUTOSAR (Classic & Adaptive) concepts, architecture, specifications and configuration tools
• Experience working within an Agile development process
• Strong development experience in C++, Java/Kotlin and object-oriented design patterns
• Experience with Linux, QNX, Android or other POSIX-type operating systems
• Experience developing Over-The-Air (OTA) update features, diagnostics (ISO-14229-1) and cloud connectivity for embedded targets or automotive ECUs.
• Experience working with vehicle communication protocols (CAN, CAN-FD, Ethernet, SOA, REST, SOME/IP, DoIP, UDS)
• Experience with Ethernet networking protocols such as 802.3, 802.1AS, TSN, and requisite transport layer formats such as TLS, HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP
• Experience in model-based development with e.g. Matlab/Simulink/PREEVision
• Experience with authoring ASIL compliant software code
• Knowledge of ISO 26262, SysML/UML modeling, Data description standards (ODX, OTX, CDD, CANDB) and cybersecurity principles (cryptographic protocols, key handling, chain of trust processing) and secure coding practices.
• Knowledge of low-level programming and hardware-software interaction.
• Familiarity with industry standard software development tools for requirements management, architecture/design/analysis and configuration management

Behavioral Skills:

• Strategic Thinking & Planning
• Excellent verbal & written communications
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Commitment to deliver.
• Good Team building / Decision making skills.
• Customer focused.
• Positive attitude
• Pro-activeness and dynamic personality