Lead Software Engineer, RTOS-based Automotive Platforms

The Lead Software Engineer owns software and validation work on RTOS-based automotive ECUs, including board bring-up and debugging across hardware and software. You will lead a team that sustains ECUs across several hardware generations. Your engineers will ramp up on the existing codebase, build pipelines, and then enable hardware validation tests. Responsibilities

• Ramp up on the existing codebase, build pipeline, and regression testing
• Develop and maintain the software stack for hardware verification and validation of RTOS-based automotive ECUs
• Perform board bring-up, verification, and debugging of automotive electronics
• Debug and triage across the software and hardware stack, and work with multiple teams to resolve issues
• Use build systems, device trees, and kernel driver development (essential)
• Communicate clearly with peers, stakeholders, customers, technical leaders, and OEMs/ODMs
• Collaborate with architecture, hardware, and software teams on debugging and validation
• Train and guide junior engineers
• Provide weekly status, risk, and decision documentation to program leadership

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of embedded software experience on microcontrollers such as Infineon, NXP, or ARM
• Solid understanding of FreeRTOS or SafeRTOS fundamentals: tasks, scheduling, interrupts, synchronization, and memory management
• Experience bringing up or configuring at least one RTOS-based platform
• Proficiency with embedded debug tools (JTAG/SWD, Lauterbach or similar, in-circuit debuggers, flashing tools) and lab equipment (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, multimeter, power supplies)
• C/C++ for bare-metal and RTOS, plus Python or Rust
• Board bring-up and low-level drivers for SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, timers, ADC/DAC, and external memories
• Automotive diagnostics and flashing (UDS, CAN, automotive Ethernet), * Platform and BSP development for MCU-based ECUs, including clocking, device configuration, and hardware abstraction layers
• Experience with hardware components such as sensors and gate drivers
• Familiarity with the Infineon SDK and toolchain
• ISO 26262 functional safety awareness

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