Automotive Android - Connectivity Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p></div><p> </p> <p><strong><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Job Description:</span></strong></p> <ul> <li><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">A Passionate and dynamic systems engineer that will bridge the gap between vehicle communications to external interfaces via different communication protocols.  </span></li> <li><span data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">This position will be responsible for working cross functionally to ensure the mobile apps and connectivity plans for the company have a high-quality execution.  </span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What you get to do: </strong></p> <ul> <li>In this position the candidate will develop mobile application requirements and manage the development, sourcing, and engineering of these solutions.  </li> <li>Design and develop vehicle side system component requirements that interact with a commercial-grade mobile application as a conduit to control vehicle features or view vehicle contents.  </li> <li>Develop phone connectivity security requirements and features that interact with other application plug-ins and vehicle modules such as secure gateway module, safety vehicle ECUs for diagnostics, flash-over-the-air and status information.  </li> <li>Work cross functionally to develop vehicle architecture requirements that allows mobile applications connectivity to automotive ECUs, implementation of UI/UX backend, framework, and frontend features in android or iOS environment. </li> <li>Implement security features in mobile applications interfacing vehicle network from illegal access and unauthorized access to safety critical modules.  </li> <li>Collaborate and work with 3rd party hardware or software suppliers to engage in requirements elicitation and test criteria to establish internal test environment and test setup.  </li> <li>Document development plans, processes, and overall mobile applications. </li> <li>Perform benchmarking / market research on vehicle attributes (features and market trends for mobile apps, vehicle content and other vehicle systems). </li> <li>Lead the technology roadmap by working with industry partners to define new and innovative technology to support vehicle connectivity, Wi-Fi and Online Infotainment features that give our customers intuitive and accessibility comfort experiences. </li> <li>Test, verify and validate mobile application software using industry standard tools. </li> </ul> <p><strong>What you bring to the Team: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in engineering Computer engineering, Computer or Information Science. </li> <li>Experience building mobile apps with a large user base interfacing cloud/server application. </li> <li>Experience in development of Android and iOS-based subsystem involving technologies of audio and video playback on a local device interfacing with USB and audio streaming technologies (Bluetooth, Android-auto or Car-play). </li> <li>Experience in designing intuitive and well-modeled application interface endpoints for both internal and user-facing device accessibility.  </li> <li>Experience or strong knowledge of RESTful concepts using OpenAPI specification to architect and document endpoints. </li> <li>Experience as a Kotlin developer for Android apps and Swift Experience for iOS apps. </li> <li>Experience in decomposing vehicle level functions and architectural elements for mobile apps, connectivity systems, and cloud offerings. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications: </strong></p> <ul> <li>Master of science degree in engineering in Computer engineering, Computer or Information Science. </li> <li>Experience in developing mobile application services on one or more cloud offerings. </li> <li>Familiarity with DevOps and DevSec tools. </li> <li>Strong knowledge of postman for testing APIs. </li> <li>Platform development experience using Open-Source experience and effective thinking through on build versus buy. </li> <li>Strong knowledge in Bootloader integration, Flash Bootloader, E2E, XCP, Cyber security and FOTA (Flash over the air).&nb