Senior Automotive Software Requirements Engineer (Infotainment & Seating)

Experience Required

• Total: 7-9 years
• Relevant: Minimum 3+ years in Automotive Infotainment, Automotive Seating, or Embedded Systems, including hands-on experience with seat-control features.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform requirement analysis and decomposition for infotainment features.
• Author and maintain software specifications with clear traceability.
• Manage traceability matrices across requirements, design, and test cases.
• Utilize DOORS DNG for requirement management and version control.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define IVI architecture (head unit, middleware, apps).
• Design and validate HMI & UX principles for infotainment systems.
• Work on multimedia subsystems (audio, video, navigation).
• Integrate and validate vehicle communication protocols (CAN, LIN, Ethernet, UDS, OBD-II).
• Apply mid-level Functional Safety knowledge to software requirements, including ISO 26262 concepts, ASIL awareness, safety requirement decomposition, technical safety mechanisms, traceability, verification criteria, and support for safety analyses and reviews.
• Apply mid-level Automotive Cybersecurity knowledge to requirements engineering, including ISO/SAE 21434 concepts, Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) awareness, cybersecurity goals and requirements, secure diagnostics, secure communication, authentication, access control, secure boot, secure update, and cybersecurity verification criteria.
• Apply AUTOSAR knowledge during software requirement analysis and interface definition, including AUTOSAR Classic and Adaptive concepts, layered architecture, application software components, RTE, basic software, communication services, diagnostics, and ECU configuration dependencies.
• Provide technical leadership in embedded systems (Linux, QNX, Android Automotive).
• Analyze and decompose requirements for automotive seating functions, including lumbar support, side bolster adjustment, cushion extension/tilt, seat position and memory, heating, ventilation, and massage.
• Define and review seat-control system architecture and interfaces, including ECUs, motors, position sensors, switches, power management, network signals, and interactions with body-control and HMI systems.
• Specify and validate seat diagnostics and safety behavior, including actuator fault handling, position plausibility, obstruction/anti-pinch protection, thermal protection, voltage-related behavior, DTCs, and UDS diagnostic services.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and apply system thinking to complex problems.

Required Skills

• Requirement analysis & decomposition
• Specification writing and documentation
• Traceability management (end-to-end requirement coverage)
• DOORS DNG and version management tools
• Automotive IVI domain knowledge
• IVI architecture (head unit, middleware, apps)
• HMI & UX principles
• Multimedia systems (audio, video, navigation)
• Vehicle communication protocols: CAN, LIN, Ethernet, UDS, OBD-II
• Strong technical depth in embedded systems basics (Linux, QNX, Android Automotive)
• APIs, middleware, OS layers understanding
• AUTOSAR - mid-level proficiency: working knowledge of AUTOSAR Classic and awareness of AUTOSAR Adaptive, layered architecture, SWCs, ports and interfaces, RTE, BSW modules, COM stack, diagnostics, network management, ECU configuration, and interpretation of ARXML-based system and software descriptions.
• Functional Safety - mid-level proficiency: working knowledge of ISO 26262, safety lifecycle concepts, ASIL classification, safety requirement analysis and decomposition, safety mechanisms, dependent failure awareness, bidirectional traceability, review support, and requirement-based verification.
• Automotive Cybersecurity - mid-level proficiency: working knowledge of ISO/SAE 21434, cybersecurity lifecycle concepts, TARA outputs, cybersecurity goals and requirements, secure boot and software update, authentication and authorization, secure diagnostics and communication, key-management awareness, traceability, and cybersecurity verification.
• Automotive seating domain knowledge, including lumbar, bolster, cushion, recline, slide, height, tilt, memory, easy-entry, heating, ventilation, and massage functions.
• Seat ECU and mechatronic interface knowledge: DC/BLDC motors, Hall/position sensors, switches, motor drivers, current sensing, calibration, and end-stop learning.
• Seating communication and diagnostics: CAN/LIN signals, network management, UDS, DTC definition, diagnostic routines, and EOL/service-tool requirements.
• Seating safety and verification: anti-pinch/obstruction detection, thermal and electrical protection, degraded modes, requirement-based testing, and traceability to system and vehicle-level requirements.
• Stakeholder communication and system thinking

Preferred Attributes

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and mentor junior engineers.
• Experience in cross-domain collaboration (hardware, software, UX).
• Exposure to OTA updates and connected services.