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Location: San Jose / Silicon Valley, CA, USA
Position: Embedded Systems Software Engineer
Type: Full Time
Salary: very competitive
Our client is a company well established as North America’s premier tuner of a leading German brand of high-performance cars. The company develops, manufactures and markets a comprehensive line of high performance products and systems.
Our client’s leading warranty program, quality products and solid engineering have made the company almost a household brand among driving enthusiasts.
Road tests conducted by major automotive enthusiast publications over the last 30 years place the cars enhanced by our client on a performance level with some of the most exotic sports cars in the world.
The Opportunity:
Our client is looking to hire a qualified embedded-system software engineer with previous automotive software experience. German speaking skills would be a strong PLUS in this position.
Required Qualifications:
The desired candidate has 8 or more years experience and possesses the skills to read and manipulate engine and transmission control software, as well as to understand current automotive systems layouts.
Automotive software disassembly skills using IDA-Pro or similar are required for success in this position.
Also required:
- ability to understand and manipulate the hex files for new functionality used in vehicles
- abilities to conceptualize, layout, write, develop, and integrate new software functionality for improved automotive engine control
In order to be considered, applicants should have recent automotive software experience with Siemens® or Bosch® production-car engine control systems and their respective development environments.
Current automotive knowledge of electronic throttle control via torque structure management is a MUST.
Experience working with Freescale PowerPC® and Infineon TriCore® architectures, along with CAN and Flexray® communication protocol knowledge, would be a clear PLUS.
Bilingual English-German or German-English!
German language skills would be highly beneficial for this position.
Our client offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well as a relocation package for the right candidate.
Visa sponsorship possible!
Interested applicants for this position are asked to kindly submit their resume using this page.


