Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies is looking to solve challenges in electric vehicles through technology, specifically by developing software-defined vehicles. The Senior Embedded Software Engineer will contribute to the Vehicle Power Moding team, designing and deploying embedded software solutions for vehicle power management systems to ensure seamless integration, robust hardware control, and system stability.
Requirements
- 2 or more years of experience in embedded software/firmware development in C, preferably with vertically integrated consumer products
- Proficient with software development on microcontrollers and sensor I/Os
- Strong working knowledge of automotive electrical systems and communication protocols (CAN, LIN, Ethernet) and relevant debug tools.
- Hands-on experience debugging complex systems that involve multiple ECUs with interfaces to various vehicle sub-systems.
- Experience with systems engineering / automotive network architecture / vehicle integration.
- Strong understanding of dependencies between various electrical & mechanical systems.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to defining software requirements, designing state machines, and ensuring they align with vehicle power moding needs.
- Lead discussions regarding vehicle states (e.g., wake/sleep) and corresponding hardware control (e.g., high voltage activation/deactivation, low-voltage domain management).
- Participate in system-level design reviews, providing insights into power management and embedded software best practices.
- Ensure the seamless transition between power modes, coordinating high-voltage and low-voltage domain transitions for system efficiency and reliability.
- Collaborate with hardware and system teams to understand and influence vehicle device control, ensuring correct interactions between software and hardware components.
- Design, develop, and deploy embedded software for vehicle power management applications such as vehicle device power on/off behavior management, system energy draw optimizations, vehicle reset, occupancy detection, user interactions and much more
- Write, perform, and review integration test cases to validate software functionality and reliability.
Other
- B.S.+ in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field with 2+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Good team player with great communication skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced development environment.
- Passionately motivated to take ideas from R&D phase to a product.
