Automotive Embedded Software Engineer

Title: Software Architect / Senior Software Engineer

Location: Auburn Hills MI:

Visa: Any Visa except CPT TN.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve the software architecture for the IPC ECU platform including module boundaries interfaces and integration strategy.
• Design develop and maintain production embedded software in C (and supporting tools/scripts in Python as needed).
• Lead technical decision-making for new features defect fixes and platform improvements with focus on quality performance and maintainability.
• Perform system-level debugging and root-cause analysis of complex issues (timing memory startup watchdog communication NVM diagnostics etc.).
• Drive best practices for coding standards design reviews code reviews and integration readiness to reduce defect injection.
• Collaborate with Systems Validation Manufacturing and Program teams to align requirements delivery scope and risk mitigation.
• Support integration and releases across product variants; help stabilize builds and resolve high-priority issues quickly.
• Mentor engineers and uplift team capability through hands-on guidance and technical leadership.
• Produce clear technical documentation (architecture notes design decisions runbooks) to improve continuity and reduce dependency on tribal knowledge.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Electronics (or equivalent experience).
• 10 years of embedded software development experience including technical leadership/ownership of complex components.
• Strong proficiency in Embedded C debugging and software design for real-time systems.
• Experience delivering software for automotive ECUs (instrument cluster experience is a plus).
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to lead investigations end-to-end and drive closure.

Preferred Skills:

• AUTOSAR Classic exposure and configuration workflows (Vector DaVinci or similar).
• MCU/platform experience: Infineon Traveo II and/or Renesas families.
• Diagnostics (UDS DTC handling) NVM strategy (NvM/FEE/FLS concepts) flashing/reflash flows bootloader/security concepts.
• Experience with CI/build systems integration branching strategies and release discipline.