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.
- Manage complexity, drive results, and collaborate with others.
