Software Engineer

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a major supplier of automotive electronics and advanced safety systems. With a strong focus on innovation and quality, they have established themselves as a key player in the automotive industry, both domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Define the customer’s desire and requirement and coordinate the SW development with SW team.
• Coordinate SW team development meeting the customer’s development milestones and deadlines requirement in function and quality.
• Coordinate Electrical Development to assure electronics hardware integration.
• Coordinate with Electrical Systems integration of customer software to hardware for final product function, validation, and launch to meet customer requirements.
• Support SW development/modification meeting unique requirement from Japanese customer.
• Interface with Mechanical Engineering, Microelectronics Assembly, Electronics Assembly, Final Assembly, Applied Materials, and Quality departments to support the execution of Electrical Engineering products into applications.
• Participate in Product Launch Teams as required.
• Support Program Management to communicate engineering product definition for product development and launch.
• Support Program Management, Product Marketing, and Sales with required technical information to help drive product sales.
• Support Program Management, Product Marketing, and Sales in the training and education on engineering product definition and function.
• Interface with Mechanical Engineering, Microelectronics, Applied Materials, and Manufacturing departments to support the execution of Electrical Engineering products.
• To understand the flow and idiosyncrasies of embedded software development in the automotive industry (mission-critical and redundant development processes depending on the system), and to communicate the customer's intentions to US headquarters’ PM and development team using the language of a software developer.
• Smooth communication with the same level of expertise as both the customer side and the software development team at US headquarter and experience in understanding MISRA-C and other general embedded software quality guidelines at the actual coding level.
• To prepare and explain specific deliverables and evidence to meet customer's checklists and quality standards with accurately mapping the relationship between quality gates in the development process and customer quality requirements based on the experience of leading embedded development as a team and understanding of embedded software development technology trends.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain knowledge of company electrical, mechanical, test, and manufacturing practices and engineer consistent with them.
• Avoid company politics and promote cooperation and consensus teamwork for the common good of all employees across all departments.
• Performs other miscellaneous duties as required.

Requirements

• 5+ years of embedded software development (C, C+, or other C-based languages, etc.)
• 3+ years of work experience in embedded software-related positions in the automotive industry. (Project management experience is preferred.)
• Experience in Automotive-Cyber Security
• Experience in Automotive-Spice
• Some information technology credits from a university or equivalent level of education. (Knowledge level of the general curriculum in the field of electronics and information optics)
• Qualification of IT skills, including the fundamental information technology engineer could be an advantage.
• Must be trained at the Gentex US headquarters one year or more.
• Bilingual - Japanese/English required. (TOEIC 750 or higher.)
• Global travel as required to support Sales activities and customer communication.

Salary

7 - 11 million yen

Location

Kanagawa