Vehicle Connectivity Engineer

About the role

ALTEN Technology USA is seeking a passionate and dynamic systems engineer to bridge the gap between vehicle communications and external interfaces via different communication protocols. This position will work cross-functionally to ensure the mobile apps and connectivity plans for the company have a high-quality execution.

What you get to do

• Develop mobile application requirements and manage the development, sourcing, and engineering of these solutions
• Design and develop vehicle side system component requirements that interact with a commercial-grade mobile application as a conduit to control vehicle features or view vehicle contents
• Develop phone connectivity security requirements and features that interact with other application plug-ins and vehicle modules such as secure gateway module, safety vehicle ECUs for diagnostics, flash-over-the-air and status information
• Work cross functionally to develop vehicle architecture requirements that allows mobile applications connectivity to automotive ECUs, implementation of UI/UX backend, framework, and frontend features in android or iOS environment
• Implement security features in mobile applications interfacing vehicle network from illegal access and unauthorized access to safety critical modules
• Collaborate and work with 3rd party hardware or software suppliers to engage in requirements elicitation and test criteria to establish internal test environment and test setup
• Document development plans, processes, and overall mobile applications
• Perform benchmarking / market research on vehicle attributes (features and market trends for mobile apps, vehicle content and other vehicle systems)
• Lead the technology roadmap by working with industry partners to define new and innovative technology to support vehicle connectivity, Wi-Fi and Online Infotainment features that give our customers intuitive and accessibility comfort experiences
• Test, verify and validate mobile application software using industry standard tools

What you bring to the Team

• Bachelor's degree in engineering Computer engineering, Computer or Information Science
• Experience building mobile apps with a large user base interfacing cloud/server application
• Experience in development of Android and iOS-based subsystem involving technologies of audio and video playback on a local device interfacing with USB and audio streaming technologies (Bluetooth, Android-auto or Car-play)
• Experience in designing intuitive and well-modeled application interface endpoints for both internal and user-facing device accessibility
• Experience or strong knowledge of RESTful concepts using OpenAPI specification to architect and document endpoints
• Experience as a Kotlin developer for Android apps and Swift Experience for iOS apps
• Experience in decomposing vehicle level functions and architectural elements for mobile apps, connectivity systems, and cloud offerings

Preferred Qualifications

• Master of science degree in engineering in Computer engineering, Computer or Information Science
• Experience in developing mobile application services on one or more cloud offerings
• Familiarity with DevOps and DevSec tools
• Strong knowledge of postman for testing APIs
• Platform development experience using Open-Source experience and effective thinking through on build versus buy
• Strong knowledge in Bootloader integration, Flash Bootloader, E2E, XCP, Cyber security and FOTA (Flash over the air)
• Knowledge of automotive standardized instrumentation and test tools such as CANalyzer, Intrepid Veh-Spy, ETAS-INCA