Sr. Software Architect - Platform Services

Who We Are:

Ever wonder who brings the entertainment to your flights? Panasonic Avionics Corporation is #1 in the industry for delivering inflight products such as movies, games, WiFi, and now Bluetooth headphone connectivity!

How exciting would it be to be a part of the innovation that goes into creating technology that delights millions of people in an industry that’s here to stay! With our company’s history spanning over 40 years, you will have stability, career growth opportunities, and will work with the brightest minds in the industry. And we are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture that will help our organization thrive!

We seek diversity in many areas such as background, culture, gender, ways of thinking, skills and more.

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The Avionics Way:

The Avionics Way captures the essence of what makes our employees special, and by extension, our organization. It’s comprised of 5 core identifiers - Pioneers, Problem Solvers, Accountable, Collaborative, and Customer Focused - that together form a robust, working framework for our continued success. Beyond a philosophy, the Avionics Way is our guide to daily practices. It provides a clear, actionable model to help employees, at all levels, realize their ambitions through outsized contributions to their teams and the company.

This model clearly defines expectations for performance at all levels of the organization, as well as establishes specific actions and modes of working that reinforce our philosophy on the path to achieving our goals.

Do you love architecting complex systems, developing precision code, reasoning through challenging requirements that span safety and security domains, and clearly communicating your ideas with others? Are you driven to achieve your best and enjoy working to improve the future? We're looking for a very strong technical leader; someone with the technical ability to deeply understand and architect solutions, and the leadership to inspire our engineering teams to implement them.

As a key member of our IFEC Architecture group, you'll focus on challenges unique to the automotive industry and our automotive products. With your help, we'll be architecting solutions needed to build safe and reliable self driving vehicle systems!

The successful candidate will be responsible for overall Architectural direction and definition of our next generation embedded systems. He is responsible for designing and developing the software architecture for complex embedded In-Flight systems by defining the overall system structure, selecting appropriate hardware and software components, and ensuring seamless integration with vehicle hardware while adhering to strict automotive safety and reliability standards.

What you will be doing:

• Building core platform services such as initial bootloading and commissioning, OTA software updates, Networking integrations with Netman, Distributed Storage Management.
• Architect and Design end-to-end embedded software architecture for Inflight Entertainment System.
• Work with software engineers and architects in system software, virtualization, trusted OS, graphics, compute, safety / security and multimedia to architect component level and system level solutions.
• As a technical leader, provide insight and technical direction to resolve issues, drive development processes, and to help improve our processes and technologies for current and future application.
• Collaborate with the hardware engineering and architecture teams to drive hardware systems designs that meet software requirements and vice-versa.
• Architect solutions using linux, Android and some microcontroller RTOSs, storage / persistence layers, internal and peripheral devices management and application management that are all part of the embedded hardware installed on aircraft ranging from servers, seatback displays and network distribution equipment.
• Develop and evangelize new and standard architectural design patterns / frameworks that drive simplification, enable faster time to market…