Software Engineer Level 2

Your Mission, Roles And Responsibilities

The Software Engineer brings strong technical development expertise and software engineering skills to Forvia Electronics (FCE). In addition to the skills expected of a software developer, the Software Engineer is expected to contribute experience in designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-class engineering solutions.

The main missions of the role are:

• Develop, prove, and document embedded software products and solutions and support to design them.
• Review and provide effort estimates on accomplishing team tasks.
• Decompose team tasks into specific work items to be accomplished in development period.
• Assess risk and priority, and balance tasks in a development period to ensure maximum team success.
• Enable all team members for successful completion of tasks with clear and constant communication; availability to peer review or brainstorm; and willingness to cover in times of absence or unforeseen interruptions to team progress.
• Occasionally mentor software developers, engineers, and interns.
• Review code and unit tests of other software developers and engineers on the team.
• Provide product definition and high-level design support for team software products and efforts.
• Decompose high level business requirements into component business requirements for inclusion in development efforts.
• Foster teamwork among engineering disciplines of software, hardware, mechanical, and quality assurance groups.
• Travel to customer engineering centers and minimal travel overseas for collaboration and training.

Qualifications

Minimum education level: Bachelor's degree in software engineering discipline (Master's degree is preferred).

Experience:

• +3 years of experience in the automotive industry, preferably in electronics/software.
• +3 years' experience programming with C or C++ or minimum of 3 years of experience as Software Engineer.
• Decomposition of business requirements into functional specifications, design documentation, and use cases, creation of support documentation.
• Experience with AI assisted development and code generation (Codex, Claude Code, etc).
• Familiar with state-of-the-art techniques for the development of embedded systems.
• Familiarity with automotive safety and cybersecurity requirements (ISO 26262, ISO 21434, etc.).
• Familiarity with the development and integration of In-Vehicle communication bus protocols (AUTOSAR, CAN, Ethernet, LVDS, etc.), software, and related tools (CANalyzer, CANoe, CANdela, etc).

Skills And Competencies

• Able to decompose business requirements into engineered solutions.
• Able to add in appropriate non-functional requirements to guarantee proper maintainability, persistence, scalability, security, and performance.
• Able to maintain architectural consistency with other software products and technical design patterns currently in use by the team.
• Ability to design solutions to enterprise class persistence, scalability, performance, security and maintainability models.
• Understanding of embedded device programming.
• Ability to work in a multicultural and fast-paced environment building software products.
• Ability to propose and support inspect-and-adapt processes for improving team performance, reducing cost of ownership for products, or shortening time-to-value for priority Forvia- Faurecia Clarion Electronics initiatives.
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally to work with global product, sales, and engineering teams.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.