Lead Embedded Software Engineer (Mediatek Platform)

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

Workplace: On-site In-Office 5 days per week
Location: Palo Alto CA

Lead role to drive our infotainment dev kit platform bring up on the Mediatek C-X1 platform. You will own the technical effort from EVK to custom board and serve as the primary interface with Mediatek.

Responsibilities
Lead end-to-end infotainment dev kit platform bring up on Mediatek C-X1 from EVK reference to our custom board
Own SW stack bring-up: bootloader kernel BSP and middleware integration
Serve as primary technical interface with Mediatek for platform enablement and escalations
Drive platform characterization: performance stability and thermal profiling
Provide weekly status risk and decision documentation to program leadership
Collaborate with architecture hardware and software teams on bring-up strategy

Required Qualifications
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field
10 years embedded SW experience; 5 years in a staff or lead role
Direct hands-on experience with Mediatek SoC platforms (C-X1 MT8xxx series or equivalent)
Proven track record leading ECU/SoC bring up programs end-to-end
Strong BSP and kernel bring-up expertise (Linux U-Boot or equivalent bootloader)
C/C Python/Rust; hardware debug tools (Lauterbach JTAG oscilloscope)
Excellent cross-team communication; experience working directly with SoC vendors

Preferred Qualifications
Automotive-grade SoC bring up experience
Familiarity with Mediatek SDK and toolchain
ISO 26262 functional safety awareness
Experience with hypervisor-based platforms

Salary Range
$140000 - 160000
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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