Engineering & IT - Systems Engineer 4 / Systems Specialist/Senior Staff Engineer -------Newark / Southfield / Seattle

Job Title: Engineering & IT - Systems Engineer 4 / Systems Specialist/Senior Staff Engineer, Connectivity

Location: Newark, CA, open to Southfield, MI, and Seattle, WA

Number of openings: 1

Estimated start date: 6/16/25

Estimated end date: 6/16/26

Daily schedule and OT estimate: 8:30am-5:30pm PST, Mon-Fri

Workspace type: Onsite

Must be from the automotive domain

Candidate Requirements

1. The ideal candidate shall have at least six years or more of proven industry experience as an architect or technical product manager in connectivity and automotive technologies, including Unified Diagnostics Services, Diagnostics over IP, and vehicle network architecture.

2. Familiarity with telematics technologies spanning Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Cellular (LTE and 5G), and GNSS and TCP/IP.

3. Strong foundations in software systems design of networking and embedded areas covering the complete software development life cycle.

The Role

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to consolidate detailed technical requirements and high-level architecture specifications for the next-generation Connectivity solutions spanning telematics communication gateways and Over The Air Updates (OTA) infrastructure to manage the vehicle firmware, calibration, and bootloader upgrades.

Formulate high-level design specifications that form a baseline for detailed system and software design and verification testing. The primary customers are software development and verification engineers.

Conduct Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) at system and software levels.

Closely collaborate with the Development, Verification, Integration, and Service engineers to establish product excellence; the teams span internal and external teams, including suppliers and partners.

Author Connectivity RFPs, RFQs, and SoWs and evaluate suppliers.

Ensure complete requirements and architecture traceability and compliance with industry standards.

Ensure optimization of software through design reviews.

Collaborate with extended teams, including Controls, Security, Infotainment, and UX, to realize the project objectives on time and within budget.

Formulate balanced solutions for unstructured, complex problems with multi-dimensional constraints, e.g., performance (throughput, latency), power consumption, CPU bandwidth, network bandwidth, complexity, extensibility, security, and safety.

Approach challenges/problems laterally across the systems and domains, drill down vertically to subsystems and elements involved, and reconcile gaps and contradictions.

Diligently follow through, follow up on commitments, and proactively unblock the issues; avoid negative surprises.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate shall have at least six years or more of proven industry experience as an architect or technical product manager in connectivity and automotive technologies, including Unified Diagnostics Services, Diagnostics over IP, and vehicle network architecture.

Familiarity with telematics technologies spanning Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Cellular (LTE and 5G), and GNSS and TCP/IP.

Strong foundations in software systems design of networking and embedded areas covering the complete software development life cycle.

Prior experience in systems software programming using C and C++.

Experience using requirement management systems like JAMA, JIRA, Confluence, or similar tools.

Experience with vehicle-to-cloud connectivity solutions, including MQTT and cloud infrastructure.

Experience with Model-based Design and Tools

MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent degrees having software development concentration, with 6+ or 8+ years of relevant experience, respectively.

Expertise in the following areas is a plus.

OTA servers and vehicle-side s/w capabilities

Linux-based system environment

Communication Stacks TLS, VPN, Cybersecurity

Automotive industry with premier OEMs or Tier-1s is a plus