Your mission, roles and responsibilitiesThe Software Engineer brings strong technical development expertise and software engineering skills to Forvia Electronics (FCE). In addition to the skills expected of a software developer, the Software Engineer is expected to contribute experience in designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-class engineering solutionsThe main missions of the role are:
- Develop, prove, and document embedded software products and solutions and support to design them.
- Review and provide effort estimates on accomplishing team tasks
- Decompose team tasks into specific work items to be accomplished in development period
- Assess risk and priority, and balance tasks in a development period to ensure maximum team success
- Enable all team members for successful completion of tasks with clear and constant communication; availability to peer review or brainstorm; and willingness to cover in times of absence or unforeseen interruptions to team progress
- Occasionally mentor software developers, engineers, and interns
- Review code and unit tests of other software developers and engineers on the team
- Provide product definition and high-level design support for team software products and efforts
- Decompose high level business requirements into component business requirements for inclusion in development efforts
- Foster teamwork among engineering disciplines of software, hardware, mechanical, and quality assurance groups
- Travel to customer engineering centers and minimal travel overseas for collaboration and training.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards and willingness to adhere to Faurecia's Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct
Your profile and competencies to succeedThe ideal candidate will have/be:
Minimum education level:
- Bachelor's degree in software engineering discipline (Master's degree is preferred)
- Consistent participation in on-going career development education, either through advanced degree programs or certification programs
Experience:
- +3 years of experience in the automotive industry, preferably in electronics/software.
- +3 years' experience programming with C or C++ or
- Minimum of 3 years of experience as Software Engineer
- Decomposition of business requirements into functional specifications, design documentation, and use cases, creation of support documentation.
- Experience with AI assisted development and code generation (Codex, Claude Code, etc)
- Familiar with state-of-the-art techniques for the development of embedded systems
- Familiarity with automotive safety and cybersecurity requirements (ISO 26262, ISO 21434, etc.)
- Familiarity with the development and integration of In-Vehicle communication bus protocols (AUTOSAR, CAN, Ethernet, LVDS, etc.), software, and related tools (CANalyzer, CANoe, CANdela, etc)
Skills and competencies:
- Able to decompose business requirements into engineered solutions.
- Able to add in appropriate non-functional requirements to guarantee proper maintainability, persistence, scalability, security, and performance.
- Able to maintain architectural consistency with other software products and technical design patterns currently in use by the team.
- Ability to design solutions to enterprise class persistence, scalability, performance, security and maintainability models
- Understanding of embedded device programming
- Ability to work in a multicultural and fast-paced environment building software products
- Ability to propose and support inspect-and-adapt processes for improving team performance, reducing cost of ownership for products, or shortening time-to-value for priority Forvia- Faurecia Clarion Electronics initiatives
- Ability to travel nationally and internationally to work with global product, sales, and engineering teams
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
What we can do for you- At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
- We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
- We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
- We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world)
- We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
- Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.
