Sr. Software Engineer - HMI

Role & responsibilities:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understand timelines, proactively coordinate, and communicate to ensure deadlines are met.
• Work with Polaris team members and external vendors in multiple locations.
• Collect requirements from UI/UX designers, ask clarifying questions, validate concepts and approaches.
• Quickly understand hardware/architecture capabilities & limitations, identify risks and propose solutions.
• Produce task breakdowns and estimates.
• Write modular code that performant, high-quality, self-documenting, adheres to standards and best practices.
• Write unit tests and contribute to test automation frameworks.
• Provide feedback designs and code via peer reviews.
• Assist with integration testing including cloud connectivity.
• Produce documentation that captures assumptions and decisions and builds institutional knowledge.
• Increase the team's velocity/productivity by making suggestions that eliminate waste.
• Other duties and responsibilities as needed.
• A passion for creating beautiful, intuitive user interfaces.

Minimum Qualifications:
• BS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics engineering, or related field
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• 5+ years of Infotainment software development experience
• 4+ years of progressive C++ development experience
• Excellent UI coding skills using Qt and QML
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new skills with minimal supervision.
• Experience in agile collaboration models (e.g., Scrum) with deadlines
• Experience with well-known design patterns.
• Experience of Linux inter-process communication techniques and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Tier 1 or Tier 2 automotive infotainment experience.
• Excellent knowledge of compilers & debuggers for ARM-based development.
• Experience implementing Linux applications and daemons.
• Solid understanding of Linux boot-time optimization strategies.
• Experience with projection technologies (Android Auto, CarPlay).
• Experience with Android OS for infotainment/automotive.
• Experience with wired (USB, Ethernet) and wireless (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi) communication.
• Experience with Infotainment Navigation.