Principal Discipline Engineer

Overview

As a Principal Discipline Engineer, develop, define, and maintain software architecture for automotive embedded products, including AUTOSAR-compliant architectures and application software components. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, hardware teams, stakeholders, and third-party vendors to ensure requirements alignment, integration, and resolution of architecture-related issues.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to comprehensively understand system requirements.
• Provide detailed reviews and clarifications to relevant stakeholders, ensuring alignment with project objectives.
• Work closely with hardware teams to ensure seamless integration between software and hardware components.
• Collaborate with third-party vendors, including Vector, EB, and MCAL, to incorporate third-party software into the product.
• Understand existing sophisticated architectures and drive resolution of architecture-related issues.
• Develop, define, and maintain the software architecture of the product.
• Allocate software requirements to the design elements of the architecture.
• Design application software components and interfaces according to AUTOSAR specifications.
• Document interfaces in the HLD document to ensure comprehensive understanding and traceability.
• Conduct resource estimation for RAM, ROM, and CPU load, and exercise control over software components and algorithms.
• Ensure efficient allocation and utilization of resources for optimal project outcomes.
• Drive the implementation of AUTOSAR-compliant software architectures and components.
• Lead the integration of software with various operating systems to ensure optimal performance.
• Participate actively in the analysis and resolution of critical software issues through debugging processes.
• Participate in reviews and acceptance of input documents related to software development.
• Engage in reviews of output deliverables and actively resolve open findings.
• Support the software project manager in defining and delivering architecture work products per planned timelines.
• Develop and optimize signal processing algorithms using MATLAB or C.

What you'll need

• 5 to 10 years of experience as a Software Architect or in a similar function.
• Strong experience in Signal Processing, Detection, and Estimation.
• Experience in AUTOSAR and Non-AUTOSAR architecture and configuration, especially NVM, COM, and DIAG.
• Experience in driver development covering CAN, LIN, FlexRay, SPI, ADC, Timer, Watchdog, Interrupt, DMA, and Memory.
• Very good experience in CAN/LIN Stack and Memory Stack.
• Experience in Bootloaders and Diagnostics using UDS.
• Excellent experience with software for small embedded devices and Microcontrollers.
• Strong embedded programming experience in C/C++.
• Good knowledge of MISRA Rules and Compliances.
• Autonomy in hardware and software debugging.

Nice to have

• Experience in RTOS, with OSEK preferred.
• Functional Safety experience.
• Automotive SPICE experience.
• Ideally, experience in Automotive development, driving assistance systems, or Embedded Systems.

Details

• Location: Chennai.
• Schedule: Full time.
• Employee status: Regular.
• Job type: Permanent contract.