Custom Software Engineer

Overview

Serve as the senior individual contributor backbone of the team, owning one or more VHAL components end to end across design, implementation, testing, integration and field-defect ownership with minimal supervision. Act as the go-to person for a technical domain and mentor engineers.

What you'll do

• Implement VHAL property support end to end, including VehiclePropConfig, read/write paths, subscriptions, change notifications, StatusCode error paths and VehiclePropertyStatus.
• Implement and maintain the connector layer between VHAL and the vehicle bus using SocketCAN, SOME/IP or proprietary IPC.
• Extend the Car Framework with CarPropertyManager conveniences, vendor CarManager implementations, permission definitions, SystemApi annotations, car-lib changes and API/.txt updates.
• Write emulator or reference support by extending the AOSP reference VHAL, property-injection tooling and mock signal generators.
• Own component performance and resource characteristics by profiling hot paths, eliminating redundant copies across the Binder boundary and tuning subscription rates.
• Lead root-cause analysis on complex defects spanning apps, CarService, VHAL and vehicle buses using dumpsys, logcat, systrace or Perfetto, bugreport, CAN traces and SOME/IP captures.
• Reproduce and triage field or vehicle-fleet issues and drive fixes through to OTA.
• Write unit tests using GTest/GMock and JUnit/Robolectric/Mockito, VTS tests for the HAL surface and instrumentation tests where a device is required.
• Author SELinux policy for owned services and resolve denials by scoping to the narrowest type and permission set.
• Review peers' code and enforce coding standards and API-compatibility rules.
• Onboard and coach engineers on AOSP workflows, VHAL concepts and debugging techniques.
• Contribute to design reviews for adjacent components and challenge designs constructively.

What you'll need

• Minimum 7.5 years of experience in Automotive Digital Cockpit Solutions.
• 8+ years total experience.
• 3+ years in Android platform or automotive embedded systems, including hands-on VHAL or HAL-layer work.
• 15 years of full-time education.
• Proficient-to-advanced C++14 or C++17, including STL, smart pointers, practical templates, multithreading with mutexes or condition variables, and understanding of the AIDL NDK backend.
• Strong Java and competent Kotlin, including coroutines, null-safety and interoperation with Java framework code.
• Solid grasp of Android internals, including Binder IPC, ServiceManager, system services, init and .rc files, SELinux basics, system/vendor/product partition rules, HIDL versus AIDL HAL differences and VINTF.
• Working knowledge of the Car API surface, including VehiclePropertyIds, VehicleAreaSeat or VehicleAreaZone, CarPropertyValue, property permissions, Car.PERMISSION and the vendor-permission mechanism.
• Practical experience with at least one onboard network: CAN or CAN-FD with DBC signal decoding, LIN, or Automotive Ethernet with SOME/IP.
• Ability to read and interpret SOME/IP service interface definitions and configure a vsomeip client, including routing manager, service discovery and endpoint configuration.
• Comfort working in an AOSP tree, including repo sync, Android.bp authoring, target builds, incremental module builds, and adb sync or adb remount workflows.
• Experience with C++, Java, Kotlin, Rust, Python or Bash.
• Automotive Digital Cockpit Solutions is required.

Details

• Based at the Bengaluru office.