Custom Software Engineer

About the role

Project Role: Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description

Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Must have skills

Automotive Digital Cockpit Solutions

Good to have skills: NA

Minimum 2 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification

15 years full time education

Summary

An early-career engineer contributing to the VHAL and Car Framework under the guidance of senior engineers. Focuses on well-scoped implementation tasks, tests, tooling and defect fixes while rapidly building depth in AOSP and automotive concepts.

Roles & Responsibilities

Implementation & Support

• Implement small, well-specified changes: add a property to the property-config set, extend an existing signal mapping, add a getter/setter path, wire a new callback.
• Write and maintain unit tests for existing and new code improve coverage on assigned modules.
• Build and maintain development and test tooling: property injection scripts, log parsers, simple signal simulators, test fixtures.
• Assist with build, flash and bring-up activities on development boards and target head units.
• Reproduce reported defects, gather logs and traces, and fix straightforward issues with guidance.

Learning & Collaboration

• Actively learn the AOSP build and development workflow, the Car Framework property model, and the team's codebase conventions.
• Participate in code reviews as a reviewer (to learn) and reviewee (to improve).
• Maintain documentation: property catalogue updates, setup guides, troubleshooting notes.
• Escalate blockers early and clearly.

Professional & Technical Skills

• 3+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful Android or embedded systems exposure.
• Competent Java and/or Kotlin able to write clear, working code and unit tests independently.
• Working C++ fundamentals: syntax, classes, pointers/references, STL basics able to read and modify existing C++ with support.
• Understanding of Android application and service fundamentals: components, lifecycle, Service, AIDL at a usage level, permissions.
• Basic Linux command-line competence Git fluency.
• Willingness and demonstrated ability to learn platform-level concepts quickly.
• C++. Java, Kotlin, Rust, Python / Bash

Good to have

• Any prior AOSP exposure - building an image, writing a system app, or working with a custom ROM.
• Awareness of automotive concepts: CAN bus, ECU, infotainment architecture.
• Exposure to the Android Automotive emulator or AAOS app development.
• Scripting in Python or Bash.

Additional Information

• The candidate should have minimum 2 years of experience in Automotive Digital Cockpit Solutions.
• This position is based at our Bengaluru office.
• A 15 years full time education is required.

15 years full time education