Senior Integration Engineer - ECU

Brief Role Description

At the Innovation & Engineering Center California (IECC), we represent the Volkswagen Group in applied research and development. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, we create bold new ideas for the Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti and Porsche brands. We’re a team of engineers, designers, scientists, and psychologists looking to develop innovations for future generations of cars, and to transfer technologies from many industries and research institutions into the automotive domain.

Our mission is to drive change, which means we are not only impacting one of the world’s largest car makers, but also the lives of millions of people. Are you ready to join us?

The Secondary ECU Integration Senior Engineer will lead the end‑to‑end system integration of secondary ECUs across the vehicle—Driver Information Systems (cluster/IC), passenger displays, antenna/telematics subsystems, and audio amplifiers—ensuring network, power state, diagnostic, RF, and HMI behaviors meet production quality at fleet scale. You own interface control, networking/diagnostics, software flashing/coding, RF performance, audio/video path integrity, and compliance (functional safety, cybersecurity, EMC/EMI, environmental).

You will partner closely with domain/zonal controllers, gateways, suppliers, manufacturing, service, and OTA platform teams to launch robust, maintainable systems.

The position will be a member of the worldwide connectivity technical team and interfaces with multiple stakeholders of VW Group’s technical team members. This position investigates and develops new architectures for connected systems targeted to the US market.

Operational Management

• Ownership of Secondary ECU Integration topics in NAR markets
• Own the relationship with network operator, contract manufacturer, platform provider and lead strategic discussions and technical negotiations.
• Serve as technical authority with Tier‑1/2 suppliers for cluster/display, RF/TCU, and amplifiers: negotiate interfaces, review FMEAs, manage 8D for field issues.
• Partner with manufacturing on secure provisioning, line‑side EOL flashing and coding, and with service on workshop reflashing parity and tooling.
• Mentor engineers, run design reviews, ensure requirements traceability (Polarion/Jama/DOORS), and drive issue burndown to SOP. Identify and mitigate project technology risks and execution risks
• Define and maintain Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and signal maps across CAN/CAN‑FD, LIN, and Automotive Ethernet (100/1000
  
  BASE‑T1); curate DBC/LDF/ARXML.
• Architect integration for domain/zonal gateways including routing, VLAN segmentation, QoS, and TSN profiles (802.1AS gPTP, 802.1
  
  Qav/Qbv/Qbu, Credit‑Based Shaper) for AV streams.
• Own power mode orchestration: KL15/KL30/KL31 state machine, sleep/wake (LIN wake patterns, CAN Partial Networking), Ethernet Wake‑on‑LAN, and boot sequencing across cluster, displays, RF front‑ends, and amplifiers.
• Bring up and validate video links between SoCs and display ECUs: FPD‑Link III/IV, GMSL2/3, MIPI DSI/eDP; manage link training, equalization, spread‑spectrum, EMI margin.
• Verify timing closure (pixel clocks, porch/sync), panel EDID/DDC, backlight control (PWM/LED drivers), and touch controllers (I²C) including firmware updates and palm/reject tuning.
• For AV‑over‑Ethernet paths, configure SOME/IP Audio/Video, IEEE 1722/1733, and gPTP domains; enforce latency/jitter budgets and sync between cluster chimes and UI visuals.
• Integrate safety telltales and legal IMU/ADAS overlays with deterministic timing; align with ASIL decomposition where applicable.
• Integrate shark‑fin antenna modules and TCUs supporting LTE/5G , GNSS (GPS/GLONASS/Galileo/Bei Dou), Wi‑Fi/BLE, AM/FM/DAB/SDARS, and V2X (C‑V2X/DSRC) where applicable.
• Engineer RF harnessing (FAKRA/HSD, 50‑Ω controlled impedance), phantom power/bias‑tee for active antennas, and ensure VSWR, noise figure, isolation, and MIMO/diversity targets.
• Validate telematics bring‑up with call boxes (e.g., R&S CMW/CMX, Keysight UXM), GNSS record/replay (Spirent), V2X testers, OTA/anechoic measurements, and eCall performance.
• Implement and verify…