Vehicle Connectivity Engineer

About the company

An innovative American automotive manufacturer focused on redefining affordable electric mobility, developing a new generation of purpose-built electric vehicles with an emphasis on simplicity, modular design, and customer customisation.

About the role

This position will be responsible for working cross functionally to ensure the mobile apps and connectivity plans for the company have a high-quality execution. The role bridges the gap between vehicle communications to external interfaces via different communication protocols, based in Troy, Michigan.

Responsibilities

• 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).

Qualifications

• 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-modelled 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.

Work authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis. Our client is unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.