Staff Software Engineer - IVI

Our Mission:

Driving technology always feels old. Not by a little bit. We believe vehicles can be a thousand times smarter, safer, and more connected to the world around us, and our mission is to see it happen. In 2019, we joined forces with Honda as their first startup acquisition, and now we’re expanding our vision into building the future of electric vehicles (BEV) for millions of people around the world.

Why Drivemode:

Join Drivemode for an exciting startup environment and a vibrant culture that combines impactful work, competitive compensation, and excellent benefits. By becoming a part of our team, you'll contribute to a crucial mission that revolutionizes the way people engage with vehicles, addressing both business needs and the world's environmental challenges. This presents an exceptional opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation and drive Honda's success in the EV market.

About the role:

We are looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer generalist to join the Drivemode IVI Team (In Vehicle Infotainment) as a foundational team member. Our goal is to assist Honda in delivering modules and components in support of Honda’s broader initiatives in IVI, whether current or future vehicles.

As part of this role, you help develop technical roadmaps, take a lead in implementing them, along with initial bring-up of developer tools, environments, and approaches to validation, in support of current Honda vehicles and future models. We are looking for someone who has a strong sense of ownership, has experience with state-of-the-art approaches in the IVI space, but is also enthusiastic about trying new technologies, and does not hesitate to do whatever it takes to get things done, even if outside your usual responsibility area. This is a new team, so this is an opportunity to be a foundational member. As part of Honda, the candidate will need to interact closely with Honda counterparts in Japan.

What You Will Do:

• Help set up development environments and best practices.
• Work with Leadership/Manager and Product Owners to agree upon initial activities and prioritized backlog.
• Collaborate to determine prioritized implementation plans for backlog items.
• Kick off the implementation of backlog items and see through to release.
• Help develop faster go-to-market approaches, including accelerated testing in virtual environments.
• Work with Honda vendors that are dependencies.
• Work with Honda dependencies for go-to-market.
• Take a technical lead in the next IVI iterations and next-generation platforms.
• Occasional travel to Japan.

What We Are Looking For:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in HMI vehicle software development.
• Android Automotive Platform experience.
• Android Automotive Application layer experience.
• Experience architecting, building, and deploying IVI environments.
• Take a lead in evolving observability, logging and telematics best practices. Take a lead in evolving OTA best practices.
• Fluent in at least: Kotlin, C++,
• A flexible attitude and entrepreneurial mindset. Be willing to engage outside of your usual responsibility area, learn new technologies and tackle challenges beyond IVI.

Nice to Have:

• Digital Twin and Software-Defined Vehicle Appreciation
• CarPlay / Android Auto
• Hardware Abstraction Layers
• Mobile application development experience
• Rust, Golang
• Experience working with Japanese vendors and OEMs
• Rudimentary Japanese (not required)

$248,000 - $292,000 a year

This is the position's total compensation package including the company's bonus structure. This position also comes with full benefits. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to demonstrated skill set, years and depth of relevant experience, and some role-dependent factors. We welcome direct conversations with each candidate about compensation in all of our initial calls.

EEOC Statement

Drivemode is proud of a very diverse team with employees coming from 5 continents/11 countries as of today. Diversity in our workplace has played an important part in our success; we recognize each employee’s unique background, knowledge, experiences, ideas, and viewpoints, which are all critical in developing a product that has the greatest impacts on drivers all over the world.

Drivemode provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other characteristics that make you unique.