Software Architect - Automotive Sensors and Interfaces (ISD)

Mediatek Inc
San Jose, CA, United States
4 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$180,000.0 - $300,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Program Optimization Data Integrity Software Design Documents Linux Firmware Software Architecture Software Engineering Systems Architecture Video Editing Information Technology Hardware Acceleration

Job description

About the Role: In this role you will be responsible to co-work with OEM/T1 to bring in requirements and lead design proposal including the following topics:

  • End-to-end data and control pipeline establishment for ADAS, AD and cockpit systems
  • Design and implement mechanisms for time synchronization and data integrity across multiple ECUs and sensors
  • Video processing pipeline from sensors to compute to displays or visualizations
  • System architecture for error handling, diagnostics, and integrity of sensors
  • Software architecture from sensors to lowest level drivers and firmware
  • G2G latencies and performance KPIs
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams (eg, software, hardware, and safety) to ensure consistent interface definitions and seamless integration
  • Detailed software architecture from sensors to OS/BSP layers, performance budgets, latencies, boot KPIs, etc.
  • System optimization to identify performance bottleneck and create performance margins

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
  • Minimum 10 years of overall software engineering experience and minimum of 5 years of software architecture experience directly related to automotive

Required Skills:

  • Strong knowledge of modern EE architectures for automobiles
  • Expertise with high-speed serial interfaces for cameras, including MIPI CSI-2 and the automotive-specific MIPI A-PHY, to handle high-resolution, low-latency video streams
  • Experience in pipelined architecture with hardware acceleration
  • Experience in implementing safety and security mechanisms for automotive sensors and associated pipelines
  • Relevant industry experience in architecting, developing, and launching the cockpit or ADAS systems
  • Strong hands-on experience with drivers for cameras, video, displays, or high-speed serial interfaces
  • Strong knowledge of Android, QNX, and Linux camera processing frameworks
  • Experience with automotive functional safety (ISO26262) and security standard (ISO21434) standards
  • Hands-on experience of creating proposals, detailed SW architecture, requirements, and design documents

Benefits & conditions

Pay range and compensation package: Base Salary range: $180,000 - $300,000. Employee may be eligible for performance bonus, short and long term incentive programs. Actual total compensation will be dependent upon the individual’s skills, experience and qualifications. In addition, MediaTek provides a variety of benefits including comprehensive health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays, paid time off (PTO), parental leave, 401(k) and more.

About the company

About the Company: MediaTek Incorporated is a global fabless semiconductor company that enables nearly 2 billion connected devices a year. We are a market leader in developing innovative systems-on-chip (SoC) for mobile device, home entertainment, connectivity and IoT products. MediaTek is the number one Wi-Fi supplier across broadband, retail routers, consumer electronics devices and gaming, and its Wi-Fi 6 chipsets are powering the latest networking equipment for faster computing experiences.

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