Senior Systems Engineer, Connectivity

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We are currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer, Vehicle Access Control Solutions. The ideal candidate exhibits a can-do attitude and approaches his or her work with vigor and determination. This principal architect role needs extensive expertise and experience in system and communications software development life-cycle, architecture, and design. Candidates shall demonstrate excellence in their respective fields, possess the ability to adapt quickly, and strive for perfection within a fast-paced environment.

Role Responsibilities:

• Drive cross-functional teams to consolidate detailed requirements and architecture specifications for the next-generation access control systems and solutions spanning Near Field Communications (NFC), Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), and Ultra Wideband (UWB) technologies.
• Lead the hands-on integration testing of the access control systems with the rest of the vehicle systems and be responsible for the access control system technical deliveries.
• Formulate high-level design specifications that form a baseline for detailed system and software design and verification testing. The primary customers are software development and verification engineers.
• Closely collaborate with the Development, Verification, Integration, and Service engineers to establish product excellence; the teams span internal and external teams, including suppliers and partners.
• Define the project/product benefits, success criteria, and priorities and arrive at executable roadmaps.
• Author Connectivity RFPs, RFQs, and SoWs and evaluate suppliers.
• Ensure complete requirements and architecture traceability and compliance with industry standards.
• Ensure optimization of software through design reviews.
• Collaborate with extended teams, including Controls, Security, Infotainment, and UX, to realize the overall project objectives on time and within budget.
• Formulate balanced solutions for unstructured, complex problems with multi-dimensional constraints, e.g., performance (throughput, latency), power consumption, CPU bandwidth, network bandwidth, complexity, extensibility, security, and safety.
• Approach challenges/problems laterally across the systems and domains and vertically drill down to subsystems and elements involved and reconcile gaps and contradictions.
• Diligently follow through, follow up on commitments, and proactively unblock the issues; avoid negative surprises.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors in computer science, computer engineering
• The ideal candidate should have at least five(5) years or more of proven industry experience in the roles of architects and technical product management in the connectivity and automotive technologies spanning a combination of areas BLE, NFC, UWB, Unified Diagnostics Services, and vehicle network architecture.
• Strong foundations in software systems design of networking and embedded areas covering the complete software development life cycle.
• Prior experience in systems software programming using C and C++.
• Experience with vehicle-to-cloud connectivity solutions, including MQTT and cloud infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters in computer science, computer engineering
• Experience using requirement management systems like JAMA, JIRA, Confluence, or similar tools.
• Expertise in the following areas is a plus;
•     Standards & Frameworks - Digital Keys and Apple Car Keys
•     Automotive industry with premier OEMs or Tier-1s is a plus
•     Experience in using