Senior Staff Software Engineer – Automotive Motor Control Tools (f/m/div)

WeAreIn for jobs that impact everyone's life. What if your ideas could change the way the world connects, powers up, or thinks? As a Senior Staff Software Engineer – Automotive Motor Control Tools in our Research & Development team, you'll have the opportunity to merge creativity with your technical expertise by shaping the future of technology, driving groundbreaking projects, and bringing new ideas to life. Are you in?

Your role

Key responsibilities in your new role

Join our team in Ilmenau to develop the PC tools that enable automotive customers to configure, analyze, and optimize our automotive microcontroller solutions for motor-control applications. You will combine desktop software engineering with embedded systems and application knowledge while helping shape a growing software-tool development team.

• Evolve our PC Tools landscape by developing communication layers as well as Graphical User Interfaces

• Design, implement, test, and maintain customer-facing desktop applications in C++/Qt and Python for configuring, analyzing, and tuning automotive motor-control solutions

• Lead technical design discussions, document architectural decisions, and align interfaces across PC tools, embedded software, hardware, and product teams

• Translate customer and stakeholder needs into software concepts, interface definitions, and implementable specifications

• Participate in interdisciplinary mechatronic projects to gain deep application expertise

• Work in a diverse team with stakeholders from various groups and cultures, including technical marketing, system architects, and other software developers

Your profile

Qualifications and skills to help you succeed

Must have:

• University degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a comparable field with focus on software development

• Practical understanding of motor-control systems and concepts such as PWM, current sensing, PID control, and field-oriented control; experience with associated configuration or tuning tools is mandatory

• Five or more years of relevant professional experience in software development including GUIs using C++, Qt and Python adhering to software design principles for clean, maintainable, and scalable code

• Able to collaborate across software, hardware and application engineering teams and communicate technical trade-offs clearly

• Fluent in written and spoken German and English (B2/C1 level)

Nice to have:

• Experience in embedded software development using interfaces and protocols such as SPI, CAN, and LIN on ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers

• Experience in agile software development using Scrum

• Automotive semiconductor experience

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