Development Engineer Sr - Software

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Worldwide, the Volkswagen Group has a long tradition of dramatic innovations. The Volkswagen Group with its headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany 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, ŠKODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania and MAN.

This position is a career level 20P and is located in San Jose, CA with a role classification of Hybrid.

The Development Engineer Sr
- Software will be responsible planning and management projects related to environment modeling, motion planning, behavioral prediction algorithms and software for vehicle control and its interaction with its environment. Testing of these concepts in a simulation environment, its integration into the ADAS projects and the final validation on a customer function level will be part of the responsibilities.

Product/ Function Development (40%)

• Project coordination for concept vehicle hardware and software development
• Create, discuss and align concepts for complex software components
• Develop and cross‑compile C/C++ and CUDA code
• Build and maintain CI/CD workflows for cross‑compiled builds targeting ARM
  64/Linux
• Spread knowledge and create guidelines for other engineers and provide architecture
• Building/Integrating software and algorithms for path planning, behavioral planning and vehicle control
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams within the ADAS development departments in Germany and in the US
• Perform root‑cause analysis and debugging of platform‑specific issues

Project Management (20%)

• Performing other duties as necessary for completion of projects and achievement of goals.
• Building a traceability
• Definition/negotiation/monitoring of requirements and change requests
• Tracking of development progress and key performance indicators
• Technical and commercial alignment with local suppliers/development partners
• Creation of specific requirements for the market
• Reporting of project status to the Management
• Defining project approval scope
• Building traceability within the development process
• Definition of required scope of local test cases (HW and SW testing, scope: platform)
• Resource planning for approval activities
• Monitoring of test execution to ensure approval on schedule
• Generate approval recommendation

Evaluate Start-ups and other cooperation opportunities with local partners to achieve project goals

Error Management (20%)

• Tracking of issues
• Leading ticket reviews
• Analyses of issues with different tooling’s (CANoe, ADTF,…)

Verification and Validation (20%)

• Testing algorithms in simulation, in vehicle in controlled environment, and ultimately in in vehicle in the field.
• Benchmarking and validating navigation systems for final deployment
• Creation of test setups for validation and acceptance tests
• Definition of required scope of local test cases (HW and SW testing, scope: platform)
• Monitoring of test execution to ensure on time approval

7 - 10 years of work experience in the field of Environmental Modeling and Path Planning for ADAS and Advanced Parking systems

Education

Required

Bachelor’s Degree in Mechatronics, Robotics or equivalent with focus on Computer Vision, Motion/Path Planning or related field

Master’s or PhD in Mechatronics, Robotics or equivalent with focus on Computer Vision, Motion/Path Planning or related field

Skills

• Good knowledge of of environmental modeling and a variety of planning techniques
• Skilled in motion planning and control theory (e.g., model predictive control, vehicle dynamic modeling)
• Good programming and algorithm…