Infotainment Architect/Lead chez Visteon

Infotainment Architect Lead

Mission of the Role: The purpose of this role is to define overall architecture & technical design, support development efforts & deployment of specific feature or component within a product. The primary focus is to deliver value to customers by ensuring that features are well-defined, well-designed, and effectively implemented.

Key Objectives of this Role:

Feature Planning and Tracking:

• Drive team to define work packages and work items according to the project milestones and customer expectations.
• Drive accurate requirement capturing, changes and defect management for all projects.
• Negotiate with the customer on the technical requirements and delivery timing.
• Track and report the feature implementation status. Identify and mitigate risks in timely manner.

Feature Requirements Evolution:

• Collaborate with stakeholders and customer on evolution of functional requirements, influence customer requirements wherever possible to enhance Visteon platform reuse.
• Ensure clear communication of dependency and impact on delivery to the customer.

Architecture and Design:

• Lead development of a common SW architecture for the domain/technology supporting multiple programs.
• Translate business requirements into SW architecture.
• DFMEA
• Provide expertise on coding, deployment, and testing complexities.
• Propose innovative, business-aligned solutions, create POCs, and publish technical whitepapers.
• Implement security best practices & ensure regulatory compliance.
• Define component interactions and integration within system and external systems.
• Continuously optimize architecture performance.

Production ready :

• Handson to make the production SW ready
• Challenge test engineers to high quality product
• Triaging and giving directions to SW development teams
• Front facing customer technically
• Lead development of a common SW architecture for the domain/technology

Industry Trends and Innovation:

• Encourage & gather feedback from users and stakeholders after feature is released and use this feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities to standardize the requirements.
• Stay updated on emerging trends and technologies in mobility industry to identify opportunities for innovation and improvement.

Building Effective Teams:

• Identify, mentor top talent, build an agile team for a rapidly evolving tech landscape. Identify and plan to develop missing technical capabilities.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Reusability in architecture and high-level design (HLD) across projects (min 70%)
• Design quality – measured through code reviews, code scalability.
• Cost and Productivity – Cost & Time taken to develop and deploy the products.
• Software performance – response time, reliability
• Ensure accuracy of the requirements status reports
• Standardization of requirements and YOY improvement by 5% on efficiency and quality

Qualification, Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Masters Preferred
• 15+ years of software development and delivery experience, 5 years of team of relevant leadership experience and software development life cycle, Agile methodologies
• ASPICE knowledge
• Familiarity with the standard Design techniques using UML tools
• Understanding of electrical circuit diagrams/ Layouts
• 10+ years of embedded software development experience in C/C++/Java
• Eight (8) years of experience as an architect working on a complex (IVI / Mobile) embedded systems with advanced technologies like speech, networking, image processing, AI/ML, etc.
• Hands-on & direct experience on QNX & Linux BSP, Hypervisor, Android OS Middleware, BT & WIFI, Media, Audio, Camera & ARM Architecture.
• Expert knowledge about the Android Framework, AOSP platform architecture, and related system
• Android knowledge in one or more domains (Mobile or IVI): BSP, HALs & Vehicle HAL; Google Automotive Services, Car services, Display - Surfaceflinger, Graphics, multimedia Frameworks, Audio
• Platform and SoC bring-up experience with good schematic/board level issues debugging along with SoC/Platform level Boot, Power and performance profiling and optimization
• Exposure in connectivity architecture using Wireless (Cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC), and wired (Ethernet, CAN, Posix socket API, TCP/UDP/IP/multicast) interfaces
• Experience with platform services like power management, state management, health management (watchdogs, power health monitoring), and reset handlers
• Experience in implementing software OTA and cloud connectivity
• Knowledge of UML tools like MagicDraw, Enterprise Architect, Rational Rhapsody or any other similar tools.
• Practical Experience in applying communication middleware for IPC/RPC, incl. specification of interfaces using IDLs.
• Knowledge and understanding of vehicle communication protocols (CAN, Automotive Ethernet, MQTT, HTTP, TCP/IP, SOME/IP).
• Knowledge of Android procedures such as Startup, Audio/ Video Stacks, Input, GUI, etc
• Ability to communicate advanced and complex concepts and ideas persuasively and concisely to all levels of the business

Key Leadership Behaviors:

• Lead from the Front
• Inspire Change
• Lead the Market
• Critical Thinking
• Technology expert

Reporting Structure: This role reports to Visteon's Director of Software Engineering.

Visteon Culture: If you thrive in a fast-paced, organizational culture that requires agility, adaptability, and a growth mindset from its employees to thrive and stay ahead of the curve Visteon is the place. We value high performance and a drive for results. Innovation, risk-taking, and continuous learning help us keep up with the ever-changing landscape of our industry and be Market leaders. At Visteon you can be more.