Senior Embedded Controls Engineer, Body Controls
About The Position
Body systems play a critical role in delivering the customer experience across a wide range of vehicle features, hardware, and software. Our team develops and integrates controls for seats, tailgates, windows, latches, wipers, mirrors, sensing systems, interior and exterior lighting, and other low-voltage motor-driven systems across vehicle domains. We work closely with Interior, Exterior, Low-Voltage Electrical Architecture, UI/UX, Systems, Hardware, and Software teams to deliver seamless, reliable, and intuitive end-to-end vehicle experiences. We are seeking a highly skilled Embedded Controls Software Engineer to join our Body Controls team. The ideal candidate has a strong background in embedded software development for complex, distributed, safety-critical systems, with hands-on experience developing device drivers and control strategies for low-voltage motors, actuators, sensors, and lighting systems.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; or equivalent experience with demonstrated technical capability.
- 3+ years of experience in electrical hardware applications, prototype bring-up, and systems development.
- 3+ years of experience with vehicle network protocols such as CAN, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet.
- Strong electrical engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience with electrical test equipment, including oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, signal generators, power supplies, and related tools.
- 3+ years of experience using embedded networking interface tools in automotive, aerospace, or a similar embedded systems environment.
- Working knowledge of systems development, vehicle architecture, battery technologies, software and hardware tool development, motor calibration, OBD calibration, functional safety, networks, and diagnostics processes.
- Experience creating and executing component-level test procedures and owning test results.
Nice To Haves
- Highly collaborative mindset with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with driver development and RTOS integration.
- Experience with software build tools such as Bazel, SCons, CMake, or similar tools.
- Experience with fundamental PCB hardware components and related analysis tools.
- Ability to develop test scripts using scripting languages such as Python.
- Strong software fundamentals, including software design, maintainability, and code quality.
- Hands-on experience with hardware bring-up, system debugging, and code optimization.
- Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals, including circuit analysis and design.
Responsibilities
- Develop control and estimation algorithms for body control features such as window systems, closure systems, lighting, and other actuator-based functions.
- Lead the design, integration, and validation of body controls hardware components on electrical test assets, including benches, bucks, lab cars, and vehicles.
- Collaborate with software integration teams to bring up core functions and translate software-level requirements into electrical hardware and system requirements.
- Apply functional safety principles and participate in safety analyses for complex vehicle subsystems.
- Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate firmware functionality, stability, robustness, and performance across operating conditions, including low-power modes.
- Drive body controls feature development cross-functionally with hardware, software, architecture, systems, validation, and program teams.
- Author feature boundary diagrams, subsystem block diagrams, validation strategies, and technical documentation.
- Lead subsystem reviews across all phases of vehicle program development.
- Support early firmware development activities, including hardware validation, lab car testing, and automation framework development for unit, SIL, and HIL testing.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
