Lead Software Engineer, RTOS-based Automotive Platforms

ALTEN Technology • Irvine, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Software Engineer owns software and validation work on RTOS-based automotive ECUs, including board bring-up and debugging across hardware and software. The engineer will lead a team sustaining ECUs across several hardware generations. The team will ramp up on the existing codebase and build pipelines, then enable hardware validation tests. The position is on-site five days per week in Irvine, California.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of embedded software experience on microcontrollers such as Infineon, NXP, or ARM.
• Solid understanding of FreeRTOS or SafeRTOS fundamentals, including tasks, scheduling, interrupts, synchronization, and memory management.
• Experience bringing up or configuring at least one RTOS-based platform.
• Proficiency with embedded debug tools such as JTAG/SWD, Lauterbach or similar, in-circuit debuggers, and flashing tools.
• Experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters, and power supplies.
• C/C++ experience for bare-metal and RTOS, plus Python or Rust.
• Board bring-up and low-level driver experience for SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, timers, ADC/DAC, and external memories.
• Automotive diagnostics and flashing experience, including UDS, CAN, and automotive Ethernet.

Nice To Haves

• Platform and BSP development for MCU-based ECUs, including clocking, device configuration, and hardware abstraction layers.
• Experience with hardware components such as sensors and gate drivers.
• Familiarity with the Infineon SDK and toolchain.
• 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 of RTOS-based automotive ECUs.
• Perform board bring-up, verification, and debugging of automotive electronics.
• Debug and triage issues across the software and hardware stack, working with multiple teams to resolve them.
• Use build systems, device trees, and kernel driver development.
• Communicate clearly with peers, stakeholders, customers, technical leaders, and OEMs/ODMs.
• Collaborate with architecture, hardware, and software teams on debugging and validation.
• Train and guide junior engineers.
• Provide weekly status, risk, and decision documentation to program leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior