Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) System Architect

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Job Description:

Position Overview:

• We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Software Defined Vehicle (SDV)

• System Architect to join our team.

• The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in designing and

• implementing the architecture for our next-generation software-defined vehicles.

• This role requires a deep understanding of automotive systems, software development, and system integration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirements Analysis: Analyze customer and stakeholder requirements and derive system constraints for finding optimized solutions for software-defined vehicle systems.

• Design: Develop and define overall system HLD for software-defined vehicle systems, ensuring key constraints like safety, security, privacy, regulatory compliance along with scalability, reliability, and performance in mind.

• Apply a data-driven approach in evaluating design alternatives considering futuristic mindset and document the decisions.

• Interface Development: Develop system interfaces for signal oriented or service-oriented Architectures using standard interface definition language (IDL) and create comprehensive API documentation.

• System Modeling: Model system components using SysML/UML tools.

• DFMEA: Own and craft DFMEAs through the standard development process.

• Support product/feature validation and failure root cause analysis.

• System Integration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate software with hardware components.

• Verification and validation: Ensure quality and reliability of software and hardware through rigorous testing and validation processes.

• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers, ensuring best practices in software development and system design.

• Automation and Quality Measures: Champion automation of software and system quality measures at all stages – requirements, design, development, and integration – leveraging tools and techniques like TDD, Gherkin (BDD), TestRail, and Google Test.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Electrical or Electronics

• Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, or a related field.

Experience:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software architecture, system design, and integration within the automotive industry.

• 5 years of experience in Systems Engineering, preferably in the Automotive domain.

• 5 years of proven working experience in Software Engineering – embedded.

• 3 years of programming experience in C / C++ / Python.

• 3 years of work experience in Agile project involvement.

• Familiarity with ASPICE, ISO 26262, and SAE standards.

• Familiarity with connected vehicle distributed systems, embedded automotive development boards (Qualcomm, Renesas, NXP, etc.).

• Knowledge of SysML and modeling language/tools.

• Automotive domain experience in component-level system design and integration using automotive network technologies (LIN, CAN, Ethernet)

• Knowledge of AUTOSAR software stack, Android software stack, domain controller architecture, and software-defined architecture.

• Knowledge of communication protocols like MQTT, gRPC, SOME/IP.

• Experience with unit, integration, regression, user testing, and load testing.

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills.

• Great collaboration and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in hands-on development and troubleshooting of embedded systems.

• Experience in functional safety and cybersecurity.

• Understanding of SOLID design principles and clean code practices.

• Experience with CI/CD tools and developing automation frameworks.

• Knowledge of service-oriented architecture concepts, and microservices architecture principles.

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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