Software Architect – Automotive

【About the Company】

Bose Automotive, LLC was established in 1992 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US-based Bose Corporation, a Japanese company specialising in car audio OEMs.
 Its premium sound systems, designed exclusively for each vehicle model, have been installed in the top models of many car manufacturers and are currently sold in Japan and around the world by numerous car manufacturers with Bose sound systems. 

【The company creates sound based on the following five product principles】
1. Making products that provide long-term customer satisfaction 　
2. Accurate reproduction of live music 　
3. Designing a total music system that encompasses circuit technology, speakers, cabin acoustics and listener listening characteristics 　
4. Custom design to develop the best possible system for each individual vehicle model 　
5. Creating a musical space in the cabin that evokes the emotion of live music

【About the Job...】

The Automotive Software Group is seeking a software architect to join our fast-paced engineering team.
Do you thrive on building high-performance, integrated software-hardware systems to create amazing
experiences for customers? Have you proven, time and time again, how getting the software and system
architecture correct makes projects easier, quicker, and more flexible?
Do you come to work each day looking forward to collaborating -- in-person and globally – with smart
engineering colleagues to deliver great products? If so, we want you as our software architect.

Job Responsibilities
• Drive the development of personalized solution proposals for clients' specific needs by actively
collaborating with both customers and engineering teams. Cultivating enduring relationships
based on trust, while leveraging expertise in software architecture and forward-thinking
technology to align with industry trends and software vision.
• Provides technical software architecture and design guidelines, works closely with peers on
design strategies and leads technical discussions relative to future architect direction across
multiple teams or complex product line.
• Responsible for requirements analysis, system architecture design and implementation, and
main responsibility for aligning Bose SW Vision with customer architecture.
• Work with customers understand vehicle architecture and customers’ needs, analyze and
propose a solution enabling seamless deployment & integration of Bose features.
• Engage with customer to shape the final architecture to align with Bose reference designs.
• Work with systems engineers and customer teams to turn software requirements into software
architectures that are flexible, scalable, testable, and high-performance.
• Work with the platforming team to ensure future software and hardware platforms include
correct and well-documented software architecture; review and suggest improvements to
architectures proposed by contracted and platforming project teams.
• Take a lead role in technical solution definition during RFI/RFQ phases, estimate complexity and
engineering cost for considered options, work closely with Customer and Sales team to identify
the best solution.
• Review business context for solutions to company challenges; define the vision and
requirements for the solution, recommend potential options, (which may include RFIs, RFPs or
prototype development), identify the most optimal option, and the development of a roadmap
for the selected solution.
• Verify features’ processing needs to accommodate required feature set in solution. tailored to
hardware and 3rd party software specification. • Schedule and participate in reviews of
software designs and code changes for a specific, assigned portion of the overall applications
and integrations code base; providing direction and recommendations to developers as needed.
• Analyze feature requests and requirements for audio processing and management, and drive
system and software requirements.
• Prototype latest concepts in electronics systems and deploy concepts to identified projects and
variants including using AUTOSAR standards.
• Develops coding core competence in C/C++ or autogenerated using Matlab, classic or adaptive
AUTOSAR design tools generation.
• Develops reusable modules, platforms and participates in design reviews, in effort to create
software architecture for future products implementation.
• Prepares software product architecture documents for the software products.
• Provides training and mentoring to a team of software engineers and provides high level designs
and interface definition for detail designs and development.
• Participate in reviewing the development process, estimating the personnel plan, assisting in
controlling development costs, defining development standards and performance requirements.
• Develops prototype simulating the development process from conception to implementation.
• Developing automotive software solutions in an Agile development practice with Test Driven
Development.
• Review Software Verification and Validation procedures for Software Architecture.
• Full vehicle E/E Software architecture SME analyzing future Software architecture trends and
developing technology roadmaps and product concepts.
• Be a part of an agile development team, ensure your deliverables are aligned with ASPICE,
verified and documented.
• Be ready to engage into software development, code reviews and testing; take ownership of the
solution from vision to deployment.

【Working hours】
9:00~18:00

【Benefits】
Full Social Insurance
Commuting Allowance

【Holidays】
Saturday/Sunday/National Holiday
Annual Paid Leave
New Year Holiday
Congratulations & Condolence Leave
Refresh Leave
Summer Holiday

Qualifications (minimum requirements)
• B.S. in Software, Computer, or Systems Engineering or equivalent. M.S is preferred.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience and a proven track record of successfully
architecting high performance automotive embedded software products.
• At least 5 years of experience working as software architect/design, ideally for audio
architecture control units.
• Demands a profound mastery of coding skills (C/C++) with minimum of 5 years of experience,
coupled with a consistent track record of active coding in the realm of embedded software
development.
• Experience in leading highly technical team and capability to provide technical direction in
terms of design and implementation, provide solutions to the team and align with strategic
plans and initiatives.
• Ability to explain complex concepts in various forums, great negotiation skills.
• Track record of engaging with customers and engineering teams, and developing trusted
relationship, influencing them through SW architecture and technology thinking in line with
industry direction and Bose SW vision.
• Strong background in software/system design to align to standards and enable portability and
efficient re-use for future applications.
• Understands software hardware integration and supports board bring up and hardware
configuration-based software.
• Experience in operating systems like Android, Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, codecs, DSP, and network
technology.
• Experience with Embedded Software, Linux shell, Real time operating system, QNX, Linux
kernel, System On Chip, microcontrollers, Classic/Adaptive AUTOSAR, bare metal non-operating
system based systems and simple scheduler based systems.
• Track record delivering meeting deliverables on-time and on-specification.
• Experience in development and deploying software architecture based on AUTOSAR tools such
as DaVinci RTE configuration, in-house developed components as well as 3rd party stacks
integrated.