ALTEN Technology USA
Lead Software Engineer, Infotainment/Connectivity Platform
Palo Alto, California, United States · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
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Responsibilities
- Ramp up on the existing codebase, build pipeline, and regression testing
- Develop and maintain the software stack for hardware verification and validation on Hypervisor, Linux, and Android systems
- Design and run stress tests on CPU, GPU, NPU, and multimedia subsystems to find bottlenecks, thermal limits, and stability issues
- Analyze and optimize ECU performance
- Support board bring-up, design verification, and debugging with architecture, hardware, and software teams
- The Lead Software Engineer owns software and validation work on Linux and Android based infotainment and connectivity platforms.
- 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.
- Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of embedded software development
- Proficiency in Embedded Linux, QNX, and DriveOS, and experience with hypervisor systems such as Type-1 hypervisors, Gunyah, or ACRN
- Experience with infotainment or connectivity subsystems such as camera/display, memory/storage, GNSS, UWB, RF, A2B, and Bluetooth audio
- Strong BSP and kernel bring-up expertise (Linux, U-Boot or equivalent): partitioning, device tree, and boot flow for eMMC, UFS, SSD, and DRAM changes
- Experience with Lauterbach, oscilloscopes, JTAG, and flashing tools
- Scripting experience in Python or shell
- All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Nice to have
- ARM core and architecture experience
- Automotive communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet)
- CI/CD pipelines for embedded systems
- ISO 26262 functional safety awareness
- OS internals: process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, storage
- Embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, linker scripts
- automotive-grade SoC experience is a significant plus
- Hands-on experience with high-performance SoCs such as Snapdragon, NVIDIA Orin, or MediaTek
Compensation
- $140,000 - 160,000
- The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
Benefits
- We're ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life-from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles.
- With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
- When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits.
Company info
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
- As part of the global ALTEN Group-57,000+ engineers in 30 countries-we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
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