Description
Body systems play a critical role in delivering the customer experience across a wide range of vehicle features, hardware, and software. Our team develops and integrates controls for seats, tailgates, windows, latches, wipers, mirrors, sensing systems, interior and exterior lighting, and other low-voltage motor-driven systems across vehicle domains.
We work closely with Interior, Exterior, Low-Voltage Electrical Architecture, UI/UX, Systems, Hardware, and Software teams to deliver seamless, reliable, and intuitive end-to-end vehicle experiences.
We are seeking a highly skilled Embedded Controls Software Engineer to join our Body Controls team. The ideal candidate has a strong background in embedded software development for complex, distributed, safety-critical systems, with hands-on experience developing device drivers and control strategies for low-voltage motors, actuators, sensors, and lighting systems.
Responsibilities:
- Develop control and estimation algorithms for body control features such as window systems, closure systems, lighting, and other actuator-based functions.
- Lead the design, integration, and validation of body controls hardware components on electrical test assets, including benches, bucks, lab cars, and vehicles.
- Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and translate software-level requirements into electrical hardware and system requirements.
- Apply functional safety principles and participate in safety analyses for complex vehicle subsystems.
- Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate firmware functionality, stability, robustness, and performance across operating conditions, including low-power modes.
- Drive body controls feature development cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, systems, validation, and program teams.
- Author feature boundary diagrams, subsystem block diagrams, validation strategies, and technical documentation.
- Lead subsystem reviews across all phases of vehicle program development.
- Support early firmware development activities, including hardware validation, lab car testing, and automation framework development for unit, SIL, and HIL testing.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent experience with demonstrated technical capability.
- 3+ years of experience in electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.
- 3+ years of experience with vehicle network protocols such as CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet.
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment, including oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, signal generators, power supplies, and related tools.
- 3+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools in automotive, aerospace, or a similar embedded systems environment.
- Working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software and hardware tool development, motor calibration, OBD calibration, functional safety, networks, and diagnostics processes.
- Experience creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning test results.
Even better, you may have:
- Highly collaborative mindset with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with driver development and RTOS integration.
- Experience with software build tools such as Bazel, SCons, CMake, or similar tools.
- Experience with fundamental PCB hardware components and related analysis tools.
- Ability to develop test scripts using scripting languages such as Python.
- Strong software fundamentals, including software design, maintainability, and code quality.
- Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
- Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals, including circuit analysis and design.
This position is a salary grade 8 and ranges from $138,800-$232,700.
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