Senior Embedded Software Lead: Automotive, Customer-Facing

FEV North America, Inc.; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

FEV North America, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on support for advanced automotive software development programs in Auburn Hills, MI.

You will lead software development, integration, testing, and release activities while mentoring teams and interfacing with customers. You will drive requirements analysis, software architecture discussions, and regulatory-compliant verification across the lifecycle, using Model-Based Design and modern engineering

Qualifications

• 8+ years of automotive embedded software development, software integration, or systems engineering.
• U.S. Citizenship or Green Card is required.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and coordinating software development activities.
• Experience working directly with customers in a technical leadership or customer-facing role.
• Strong experience with MATLAB/Simulink, Stateflow, Embedded C/C++, software integration, and verification activities.
• Experience with requirements management, traceability, software testing, and release management.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to software engineering teams across multiple customer programs.
• Support customer meetings, technical reviews, workshops, project status discussions, and issue resolution activities.
• Lead requirements analysis, software design reviews, software architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.
• Coordinate software development, integration, verification, and release activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Develop and review embedded software using Model-Based Design methodologies and modern software engineering practices.
• Support software integration, debugging, root cause analysis, and corrective action implementation.
• Guide software testing activities, including MIL, SIL, HIL, integration, and validation testing.
• Ensure bidirectional traceability between requirements, software implementation, and verification artifacts.
• Review and approve engineering deliverables, software releases, test reports, and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with systems, validation, project management, and customer engineering teams to ensure successful project execution.
• Identify technical risks and develop mitigation plans to maintain program timing and deliverable quality.
• Mentor and support junior engineers while driving engineering best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

MATLAB/Simulink

Stateflow

Embedded C/C++

CI/CD pipelines

Software verification

Requirements management

Traceability

CAN/CAN FD

LIN

Tools

Model-Based Design

Job description

FEV North America, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on support for advanced automotive software development programs in Auburn Hills, MI.

You will lead software development, integration, testing, and release activities while mentoring teams and interfacing with customers. You will drive requirements analysis, software architecture discussions, and regulatory-compliant verification across the lifecycle, using Model-Based Design and modern engineering