Sr. Staff SoC Platform SW Engineer – OS, Bootloader, Safety & Security

We are seeking a Sr. Staff SoC Platform SW Engineer with deep hands-on experience in QNX, Embedded Linux, and Android platforms to lead the development, integration, and stabilization of low-level system software for next-generation automotive SoCs.

This role focuses on SoC bootloader development, OS/BSP integration, hardware-assisted safety and security feature implementation, and resolving critical platform issues. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in SoC architecture, low-level debugging, and hardware-software integration rather than general functional safety or cybersecurity engineering.

You will be part of the Platform Software Engineering team at Stellantis, supporting Autonomous Driving, Infotainment, and Connected Vehicle Systems.

• →Lead development and integration of SoC bootloader, BSP, and low-level platform software across QNX, Linux, and Android environments.
• →Implement and integrate SoC-specific hardware safety mechanisms, including ECC error handling, fault monitoring, error reporting, and recovery mechanisms.
• →Integrate SoC hardware security features, including secure boot, hardware root of trust, firmware authentication, and trusted execution environments.
• →Drive platform stability improvements by investigating and resolving critical boot failures, kernel crashes, initialization issues, and system hangs.
• →Lead debugging of complex issues across SoC hardware, bootloader, hypervisor, BSP, device drivers, and operating systems.
• →Support SoC bring-up, boot sequence optimization, memory initialization, and multicore system initialization.
• →Collaborate with semiconductor partners, OS vendors, and platform engineering teams to integrate and validate SoC safety and security capabilities.
• →Develop diagnostic tools, automated testing, and fault-injection frameworks to validate SoC functionality, reliability, and stability.
• →Support integration of QNX Hypervisor, Linux, and Android guest environments on virtualized SoC platforms.
• →Provide technical leadership, architecture reviews, and mentoring in SoC platform software development and debugging.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in embedded software development, with significant hands-on experience in automotive SoC platform software.
• Strong development and debugging experience in QNX, Embedded Linux, and/or Android at the BSP/kernel/platform level.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++, ARM-based SoC architectures, and low-level embedded programming.
• Proven experience with SoC bootloader development, BSP integration, device drivers, and hardware bring-up.
• Experience implementing SoC hardware-assisted safety and security features within bootloader, BSP, or OS layers.
• Deep understanding of boot sequences, memory management, MMU, interrupts, multicore initialization, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Strong system-level debugging experience using JTAG, kernel traces, crash dumps, and hardware diagnostic tools.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with Qualcomm automotive SoCs, QNX Hypervisor, and Linux/Android virtualization.
• Experience with QNX Neutrino, Linux kernel, Android BSP, device drivers, and bootloader frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with SoC safety hardware mechanisms, including ECC, fault aggregation, watchdogs, and error recovery.
• Knowledge of ARM TrustZone, secure boot, hardware root of trust, and trusted execution environments.
• Experience implementing SoC-level safety and security requirements derived from ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434.
• Experience debugging complex boot, stability, and hardware-software integration issues across multicore SoCs.
• Proficiency in Python, Shell scripting, and automated platform validation.