Infotainment/Connectivity Lead

Possible 3 Month CTH

Role name: Infotainment/Connectivity Lead

Work Location: Palo Alto, CA or Irvine, CA (Onsite)

Start date: Immediate availability.

Background check MANDATORY

The lead owns software and validation work on Linux and Android based infotainment and connectivity platforms. The role requires 8+ years of experience

Key Responsibilities:

Ramp up on the existing codebase, build pipeline, and regression testing

Develop and maintain the software stack for hardware verification and validation on Hypervisor, Linux, and Android systems

Design and run stress tests on CPU, GPU, NPU, and multimedia subsystems to find bottlenecks, thermal limits, and stability issues

Analyze and optimize ECU performance

Support board bring-up, design verification, and debugging with architecture, hardware, and software teams

Train and guide junior engineers

Provide weekly status, risk, and decision documentation to program leadership

Mandatory Skills:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

8+ years of embedded software development

Hands-on experience with high-performance SoCs such as Snapdragon, NVIDIA Orin, or MediaTek; automotive-grade SoC experience is a significant plus

Proficiency in Embedded Linux, QNX, and DriveOS, and experience with hypervisor systems such as Type-1 hypervisors, Gunyah, or ACRN

Experience with infotainment or connectivity subsystems such as camera/display, memory/storage, GNSS, UWB, RF, A2B, and Bluetooth audio

Strong C/C++ coding skills

Solid understanding of Linux/Android, kernel configuration, device driver interfaces, and debugging tools

Strong BSP and kernel bring-up expertise (Linux, U-Boot or equivalent): partitioning, device tree, and boot flow for eMMC, UFS, SSD, and DRAM changes

Experience with Lauterbach, oscilloscopes, JTAG, and flashing tools

Understanding of interface and protocol stacks (SPI, I2C, Ethernet, PCIe, CAN) and board bring-up

Scripting experience in Python or shell

Preferred OS internals: process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, storage

ARM core and architecture experience

Embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, linker scripts

Automotive communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet)

CI/CD pipelines for embedded systems

ISO 26262 functional safety awareness