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Job description
Title: Lead, Infotainment/Connectivity Platform
Location: Palo Alto, CA (Onsite)
Duration: 6+ months
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The lead owns software and validation work on Linux and Android based infotainment and connectivity platforms.
The role requires 8+ years of experience.
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 find 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
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of embedded software development
- Hands-on experience with high-performance SoCs such as Snapdragon, NVIDIA Orin, or MediaTek; automotive-grade SoC experience is a significant plus
- 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): 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
Preferred
- OS internals: process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, storage
- ARM core and architecture experience
- Embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, linker scripts
- Automotive communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet)
- CI/CD pipelines for embedded systems
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