Connected Car Launch Engineer

At Tata Technologies we make product development dreams a reality by designing, engineering and validating the products of tomorrow for the world’s leading manufacturers. Due to our continued growth, we are now recruiting for a Connected Car Launch Engineer to be based at our office customers site in Warwick.

Our Embedded Systems Solutions department (ESS) encompasses all activities outlined under the Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) process framework, including systems engineering, software engineering, coding, and all levels of functional testing. Beyond core development, ESS also integrates critical supporting processes such as project management, risk assessment, functional safety, and cybersecurity, ensuring compliance with ASPICE standards and delivering reliable, secure, and high-quality embedded systems and solutions.

The Connected Car Launch Engineer is responsible for the end‑to‑end readiness, validation, and successful market launch of connected vehicle features and services. This role acts as the technical bridge between engineering, testing, suppliers, cloud backends, and vehicle programs, ensuring that all connected car functions (OTA, telematics, remote services, apps, diagnostics, subscriptions, compliance) are stable, compliant, and launch‑ready across regions.

The engineer owns pre‑launch to post‑SOP execution, including trials, production readiness, defect triage, go‑live coordination, and early‑life support.

• Define launch criteria, go/no‑go gates, and acceptance metrics for connected features.
• Support multiple launch phases:
  Pilot, SOP, regional rollouts, and feature expansions.

• Vehicle ECUs (TCU, Gateway, Domain Controllers)
• Verify vehicle cloud app data flows, latency, reliability, and failover behavior.
• Drive resolution of integration issues across SW/HW/Cloud boundaries.

• Support and track UAT, field trials, dogfooding, and pre‑SOP fleet testing.
• Network mode testing (ignition cycles, sleep/wake, roaming, weak signal).
• Ensure validation across vehicle modes and transitions, regions, markets, and regulatory variants.
• Review and sign off launch validation reports.
• Act as launch triage focal point during SOP and early‑life support.
• Drive root cause analysis (RCA) and corrective actions with internal teams and suppliers.
• Raise and track critical launch blockers and risks.

• OEM engineering, vehicle integration, and manufacturing.
• Track supplier deliverables against launch milestones.
• Ensure alignment across global OEM, ESP, and supplier teams.

• Ensure connected features are compliant with UN R155 (CSMS) & R156 (SUMS/OTA).
• Data privacy and cybersecurity requirements.

• Create and maintain launch readiness checklists.
• Feature enablement matrices (by market/variant).
• Present launch status, risks, and mitigations to management and customers.
• Support early‑life production (ELP) and stabilization phase.
• Monitor real‑world telemetry, incidents, and customer issues.
• Feed learnings into next vehicle programs, OTA releases, and process improvements.

• Strong understanding of OTA platforms (FOTA/SOTA).
• Vehicle networks (CAN, Ethernet, LIN).
• Cloud‑based automotive services.
• Experience with tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Log analysis and monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with AAOS / infotainment ecosystems is a plus.

• Experience in automotive software, connected car, or EE&I domains.
• Proven experience in vehicle SOP or feature launches.
• Hands‑on exposure to vehicle testing, field trials, and ELP support.

• Pension Scheme – We match employee contribution up to 5% of salary.
• 25 days holiday.
• Private Health Care.
• Tata Jaguar Land R over Privilege Scheme – up to 20% off new JLR vehicles.
• Group Income Protection.
• Health Assured – Employee Assistance Program.
• Group Life Assurance.
• Health Shield – Private Health Cash Plan.