Associate Software Architect

Major Accountabilities:

1. Lead the design and development of software architectures for automotive embedded systems, ensuring alignment with project requirements, industry standards, and best practices.
2. Define architectural patterns, components, and interfaces to support modularity, scalability, and reusability across different automotive applications and platforms.
3. Drive the software development life cycle (SDLC) from requirements analysis to deployment, providing guidance and oversight to ensure adherence to quality, schedule, and budget objectives.
4. Apply in-depth knowledge of the automotive product development process to tailor software architecture solutions to meet industry-specific requirements and regulatory standards.
5. Participate in design reviews, risk assessments, and compliance audits to validate architectural decisions and ensure alignment with project goals and objectives.
6. Utilize expertise in embedded systems to design software architectures that leverage microcontroller architectures, real-time operating systems (RTOS), and communication protocols for automotive applications.
7. Act as a primary point of contact for customer engagements related to software architecture design, providing technical expertise, guidance, and support to address customer requirements and concerns.
8. Establish testing and debugging processes and procedures for validating software architectures, ensuring robustness, reliability, and performance across different automotive platforms and configurations.
9. Utilize testing tools and techniques, such as Vector CANalyzer, CANoe, and Renesas hardware, to conduct functional testing, integration testing, and system validation, identifying and resolving architectural issues in a timely manner.
10. Manage and maintain architecture toolchains and development environments, including configuration management, tool integration, and workflow automation, to support efficient and effective software architecture design activities.
11. Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance the architecture toolchain, improve productivity, and enable continuous improvement in software architecture design practices.
12. Foster strong relationships with customers by actively listening to their feedback, understanding their needs, and proposing innovative software architecture solutions that add value and enhance customer satisfaction.

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