Principal Engineer Network Domain

Unit and Team Overview

The Infotainment Platforms Unit is responsible for the development maintenance and deployment of the BMW infotainment platform. This Linux (Yocto) based software platform provides essential automotive functions utilized by multiple automotive ECUs. The unit also addresses cross-cutting concerns such as architecture security stability and performance deploying the platform across various infotainment domain ECUs including head units rear seat entertainment systems telematics and audio ECUs.

The Team and in particular the Network Team is located in many sites around the world (Germany Portugal and India) and has very good online digital work mode so that location does not make a big difference.

The key technologies used are Embedded Linux environment Automotive processes rich tooling environment (Github Jira Confluence...) scripting and tooling with Python Rust and other languages.

Job Description

As the Domain Principal Engineer for the Network domain you will play a pivotal role in shaping the technical direction and strategy for our infotainment platform. You will lead the design and implementation of robust engineering practices ensuring the highest quality and performance standards across multiple ECU projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary technical liaison for stakeholders presenting technical updates project statuses and architectural decisions to ensure transparency and alignment.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with software development testing and project management teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of high-quality software solutions.
• Mentorship and Development: Mentor and guide junior engineers fostering a culture of innovation collaboration and continuous learning within the team.
• Risk Management: Identify potential risks in the development and testing processes proposing and implementing mitigation strategies to ensure project success.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate and enhance engineering processes tools and methodologies to optimize performance and quality in the Network domain.

Supporting responsibility

support the test manager in follwing tasks :

• Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance and leadership in the design development and integration of the Network domain within the infotainment platform.
• Architecture Oversight: Define and maintain the architectural vision for the Network domain ensuring alignment with overall platform goals and industry standards.
• Test Strategy Development: Collaborate with the testing team to create comprehensive test strategies including pre-integration and post-integration testing and ensure alignment with project objectives.

support the architect in the following tasks :

• Performance Monitoring: Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) for the Network domain driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance workflow efficiency and product quality.

Qualifications

Required Experience and Skills

• Strong mindset for quality delivery and driven by understanding the inner working of systems.
• Knowledge of head unit platform functionalities and automotive software development processes.
• Strong knowledge of Ethernet SOME/IP CAN nPDU MACSec IPSec Firewall etc

Nice to have Experience and Skills

• Strong knowledge of Linux. (Android Automotive as nice to have)
• Track record in leading team of developers testers and/or contractors.
• Experience in Testing frameworks Requirement Management tool and Defect Management.

Basic requirements and Education

• Business fluent English
• University degree in computer science or a comparable field of study ideally with a security focus

Keywords

• Networking protocols (Ethernet TCP/IP UDP)
• SOME/IP DoIP
• Embedded C
• Pyhton Rust
• Linux Yocto

Required Experience:

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