Senior Vehicle Software Engineer - ADAS & AI Perception

Compal-USA; Farmington Hills (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SYLUX in Farmington Hills, MI is seeking a Senior Vehicle Application Software Engineer to develop, integrate, and validate software features for infrared perception and safety systems in vehicles.

You will bridge software development, vehicle integration, ADAS feature development, and real-world validation, transforming infrared camera data into vehicle behaviors and safety actions. This hands-on role requires CAN, Linux/NVIDIA environments, and collaboration with international teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, SWE, EE, CSE, robotics or related field.
• 5+ years of software development experience, automotive/ADAS preferred.
• Experience with perception sensors (IR cameras, radar, LiDAR).
• Real-time or multi-threaded software development experience.
• Experience with CAN networks and CAN tools (CANalyzer / Kvaser).
• Familiarity with DBC structures and CAN signal encoding/decoding.
• Familiarity with ROS2 framework.
• Experience with low-level hardware interfaces (RS232, SPI, GPIO, Ethernet/UDP, USB).
• Experience in Linux or NVIDIA development environments and Git.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and validate software features using SYLUX infrared cameras and CDAT AI perception software.
• Develop, maintain and optimize a globally shared vehicle application used across the engineering teams.
• Translate system and customer requirements into functional software features and vehicle-level behaviors.
• Support feature development from proof-of-concept to customer-ready vehicle demonstration, validation, and customer evaluation.
• Develop algorithms that convert perception output into vehicle warnings, decisions, and control actions.
• Perform driver and kernel-level hardware bring-up, diagnosing and resolving low-level driver and kernel module installation issues.
• Extend perception-based feature logic to support new ADAS applications (FCW, AEB, RAB, SDO, BSM, ACC, etc.).
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary and international engineering teams across locations.

Skills

Python

C++

Communication

Documentation

ROS2

Linux

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Electrical / Computer Engineering / Robotics

Tools

CANalyzer

Kvaser

DBC structures

CAN signaling

Linux development env

Git

ROS2

Job description

SYLUX in Farmington Hills, MI is seeking a Senior Vehicle Application Software Engineer to develop, integrate, and validate software features for infrared perception and safety systems in vehicles.

You will bridge software development, vehicle integration, ADAS feature development, and real-world validation, transforming infrared camera data into vehicle behaviors and safety actions. This hands-on role requires CAN, Linux/NVIDIA environments, and collaboration with international teams.