Lead Software Engineer, Infotainment/Connectivity Platform

Workplace: On-Site, 5 days per week
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Salary: $140-160k

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.

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
• Train and guide junior engineers
• Provide weekly status, risk, and decision documentation to program leadership

Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of embedded software development
• Hands-on experience with high-performance SoCs such as Snapdragon, NVIDIA Orin, or MediaTek; automotive-grade SoC experience is a significant plus
• 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 C/C++ coding skills
• Solid understanding of Linux/Android, kernel configuration, device driver interfaces, and debugging tools
• 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
• Understanding of interface and protocol stacks (SPI, I2C, Ethernet, PCIe, CAN) and board bring-up
• Scripting experience in Python or shell

Preferred Qualifications
• OS internals: process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, storage
• ARM core and architecture experience
• Embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, linker scripts
• Automotive communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet)
• CI/CD pipelines for embedded systems
• ISO 26262 functional safety awareness

Salary Range
• $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