Infotainment/Connectivity Lead
About The Position
At Capgemini Engineering, engineers, scientists, and architects provide research, development, and engineering services to companies across industries. The Infotainment/Connectivity Lead owns software and validation work on Linux- and Android-based infotainment and connectivity platforms. This is an onsite role in Palo Alto, California. The role involves ramping up on the existing codebase, build pipeline, and regression testing; developing and maintaining software for hardware verification and validation on Hypervisor, Linux, and Android systems; and designing and running subsystem stress tests. The lead analyzes and optimizes ECU performance, supports board bring-up and design verification with architecture, hardware, and software teams, guides junior engineers, and provides weekly status, risk, and decision documentation to program leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of embedded software development experience.
- Hands-on experience with high-performance SoCs such as Snapdragon, NVIDIA Orin, or MediaTek.
- Proficiency in Embedded Linux, QNX, and DriveOS, and experience with hypervisor systems such as Type-1 hypervisors, Gunyah, or ACRN.
- Experience with infotainment or connectivity subsystems such as camera/display, memory/storage, GNSS, UWB, RF, A2B, and Bluetooth audio.
- Strong C/C++ coding skills.
- Solid understanding of Linux/Android, kernel configuration, device driver interfaces, and debugging tools.
- Strong BSP and kernel bring-up expertise (Linux, U-Boot, or equivalent), including partitioning, device tree, and boot flow for eMMC, UFS, SSD, and DRAM changes.
- Experience with Lauterbach, oscilloscopes, JTAG, and flashing tools.
- Understanding of interface and protocol stacks (SPI, I2C, Ethernet, PCIe, CAN) and board bring-up.
- Scripting experience in Python or shell.
Nice To Haves
- Automotive-grade SoC experience.
- OS internals experience, including process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, and storage.
- ARM core and architecture experience.
- Embedded toolchain experience, including compilers, linkers, and linker scripts.
- Automotive communication protocol experience (CAN, Ethernet).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for embedded systems.
- ISO 26262 functional safety awareness.
Responsibilities
- Ramp up on the existing codebase, build pipeline, and regression testing.
- Develop and maintain the software stack for hardware verification and validation on Hypervisor, Linux, and Android systems.
- Design and run stress tests on CPU, GPU, NPU, and multimedia subsystems to identify bottlenecks, thermal limits, and stability issues.
- Analyze and optimize ECU performance.
- Support board bring-up, design verification, and debugging with architecture, hardware, and software teams.
- Train and guide junior engineers.
- Provide weekly status, risk, and decision documentation to program leadership.
Benefits
- Paid time off based on employee grade, including 12–25 vacation days depending on grade, company-paid holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement savings plans, such as a 401(k) in the U.S.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Employee assistance programs.
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
