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# Software Architect - Automotive Sensors and Interfaces (ISD)

- **Company:** Mediatek Inc
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Program Optimization, Data Integrity, Software Design Documents, Linux, Firmware, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, Video Editing, Information Technology, Hardware Acceleration
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-79726336B1B27BE6FD/

## About the Role

* 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

## 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


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