ADAS - Senior Autonomous Driving Software Engineer (Multi-year contract opportunity | NO OPT/CPT)

Worldwide, the Volkswagen Group has a long tradition of dramatic innovations. The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg is one of the world's leading automobile manufacturers and the largest carmaker in Europe. The Group comprises twelve brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, SEAT, KODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania, and MAN. Here in the US, we are blending German engineering with American ingenuity.

As AoA ADAS Hub, we develop and realize Advanced Driver Assistant and Autonomous Driving solutions. Our mission is to make mobility safe, accessible, and most attractive for our customers. Doing this your location has a big focus on the US market and reflects the customers' needs of the North American region.

For that, we support the entire operation from strategy, perception, fusion, planning, execution, and end-2-end integration. We are an integral part of Volkswagen Group's, fleet operations for the next generation assisted and self-driving systems.

Our mission is to drive innovations which means we are not only impacting one of the world's largest car makers, but also the lives of millions of our customers.

ADAS - Autonomous Driving Software Engineer - Sr. (Multi-year contract opportunity)

Role Summary:

The role is the driving force behind the development of the ACA+ functionality from start of the project until the milestone "end of production" and thus the central contact person throughout the whole product development process.

The role is responsible for the interdisciplinary concept design, definition, and specification during the beginning of the project as well as for the implementation, testing and approval of the intended functionality during the further procedure.

Concept Design and Definition of the Functionality

* Transferring the needs of marketing and sales department into technical descriptions

* Identifying the relevant stakeholder for realizing the intended functionality

* Responsible for setting up a functional team for coordinating the further development

* Responsible for requirements clarification with other stakeholder (like other components or functionalities) and documentation in due form

* Ensuring the consideration of the functionality within the electrics/electronics architecture as well as the whole car architecture

* Controlling of the creation and implementation of functional architectures, safety analysis, safety concepts and test concepts

Implementation / realization

* Responsible for setting up a project plan including a feature release plan considering the different levels of maturity of the ACA+ functionality as well as the levels of maturity of all relevant partner ECUs and partner functionalities

* In charge of monitoring the implementation and realization in close contact to all relevant partner ECUs and partner functionalities

* Organizing of regular functional team meetings for coming to an agreement between all involved parties with respect to functional contents and schedule

* Controlling and coordination of the functional team by regular status meetings according to the project plan

* Responsible for continuous reports of level of maturity

* Responsible for reaching predefined milestones (according to project plan) and escalation in the case of non-achievement

Testing

* Definition of measurement setup and cars together with involved parties

* Responsible for the adequate definition of test scope, test cases, test locations and scenarios considering the specific needs of the functionality and the current level of maturity (e.g. definition of tests on module, component or system level)

* Organization of adequate test drives according to the SW release plan

* Ensuring the compliance of the intended functionality with all functional and non-functional requirements

Approval

* In charge of collecting all relevant test reports

* In charge of collecting the minor approvals of all involved components and functionalities

* Responsible for giving an approval recommendation to line manager

Skills:

* Effective analytical and conceptual skills to derive adequate solutions for technical problems

* Planning and organization, project management and time management skills

* Ability to solve complex problems

* Ability to work independently

* Excellent communication skills

* Open minded and empathic work style

* Excellent team player

* Comfortable with ambiguity and tackling new problems

Specialized Skills - Required:

* Proven experience with ADAS/AD system design which includes Scenario creation, Customer function creation and modelling requirement into engineering design requirement which will be input for SW development

* Proven experience in generating test catalogue and integration testing in ADAS/AD domain

* Expertise in embedded SW and its implementation in ADAS/AD domain

* Experience programming in Python and/or C/C++

* Should be familiar with automotive communication standards (CAN, FlexRay and Ethernet) and their measurement systems

* Strong measurement data analysis skill

* Knowledge on industry development processes like SPICE and Scrum

* Knowledge of functional safety and SOTIF

Specialized Skills - Desired:

* Knowledge of ADAS/AD features

* Experience with in-vehicle ADAS/AD feature verification and validation testing

* Experience with working in OEM environment

* Experience with working in cross-functional environment

* Basic German language skills (written and spoken)

* Knowledge of Simulation environment for ADAS/AD feature testing

* Knowledge of Vehicle architecture

Education

* Bachelor's degree in engineering (mechanical, electrical, computer science or comparable)

* Master's or PhD in in Engineering (mechanical, electrical, computer science or comparable) STRONGLY PREFERRED

This is a HYBRID (onsite 3x/week) CONTRACT ROLE. Possibility of travel (domestic and/or international)

The salary range for this role in California is $125,000 - $155,000, depending on education and experience.

Volkswagen Group of America is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, color, gender identity/expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.

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