ALTEN Technology USA
Lead Software Engineer, RTOS-based Automotive Platforms
Irvine, California, United States · Senior · Contract
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About the role
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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 of RTOS-based automotive ECUs
- Perform board bring-up, verification, and debugging of automotive electronics
- Use build systems, device trees, and kernel driver development (essential)
- Collaborate with architecture, hardware, and software teams on debugging and validation
- 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.
- 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 experience on microcontrollers such as Infineon, NXP, or ARM
- 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)
- All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Nice to have
- 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
- C/C++ for bare-metal and RTOS, plus Python or Rust
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.
- Communicate clearly with peers, stakeholders, customers, technical leaders, and OEMs/ODMs
- 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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