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We develop innovative software and build the hardware to bring autonomous driving cars, advanced driver-assistance systems, connected vehicles and smart cities to life in a way that only we can. We work in partnership with almost all car manufacturers. Our sensors, systems and software can already be found in almost all passenger cars today.\nAptiv is building a new Robotics business focused on Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Drones for warehouse, industrial, and adjacent markets. A core differentiator of these systems is robust, reliable, and scalable perception across diverse environments and customer use cases.\nWe are seeking an Embedded Systems Architect to design, develop, integrate, and optimize robotics and drone hardware and software systems. In this role, you will contribute to the architecture, implementation, and deployment of embedded platforms spanning sensor integration, edge computing, autonomy, and machine learning-based perception technologies.\nYou will apply strong technical expertise to deliver reliable, scalable, and production-ready robotics and autonomous systems. Working closely with autonomy, localization, safety, hardware, data, and product teams, you will help ensure system capabilities meet performance, safety, and commercial requirements. You will also play a key role in transforming early-stage concepts and prototypes into robust, data-driven products that can be deployed across multiple platforms, applications, and customer environments.\nKey Responsibilities\nTechnical Design & System Development\nDesign, develop, and maintain embedded system architectures across AMR and drone platforms.\nContribute to technical decisions involving sensing, compute platforms, data pipelines, perception algorithms, embedded software, and system integration.\nCollaborate with Product Managers and Technical Program Managers to ensure technical solutions align with product requirements, schedules, and business objectives.\nEvaluate emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies to improve system performance, scalability, and maintainability.\nAnalyze and implement solutions that balance performance, latency, reliability, safety, power consumption, compute resources, and cost.\nProvide technical expertise and recommendations during architecture reviews, design discussions, and system trade-off evaluations.\nSystems, Software & Perception Requirement Engineering\nDevelop requirements for:Embedded systems architecture and platform software.\nSensor integration and data acquisition for cameras, lidar, radar, depth sensors, IMUs, and related technologies.\nSensor data ingestion, synchronization, preprocessing, and transport frameworks.\nRuntime inference, diagnostics, monitoring, and health management capabilities.\nInterfaces and integration between perception, localization, planning, safety, and control subsystems.\n\nDevelop requirements that support scalable, reusable, and production-ready robotics platforms.\nContribute throughout the product lifecycle, from concept development and prototyping through deployment and maintenance.\nTranslate customer, product, and operational requirements into effective technical solutions.\nProduct Development & Technical Execution\nPerform system bring-up, integration, validation, and troubleshooting activities across hardware and software domains.\nResolve complex technical issues and support root-cause analysis efforts across hardware and software systems.\nIdentify technical risks early and develop mitigation strategies throughout the product development lifecycle.\nCollaborate with cross-functional teams to solve challenges involving embedded hardware, software, autonomy, safety, and system integration.\nContribute to engineering process improvements that enhance product quality, reliability, and development efficiency.\nSupport verification, validation, testing, and deployment activities for production systems.\nCross-Functional Collaboration & Platform Integration\nPartner closely with hardware, SoC, and platform engineering teams to:Evaluate sensors, compute platforms, and hardware acceleration technologies.\nOptimize system architectures for performance, power efficiency, scalability, and cost.\nEnsure robust timing, synchronization, communication, and bandwidth management.\n\nCollaborate with autonomy, localization, planning, controls, and safety teams to define system interfaces, requirements, diagnostics, and performance expectations.\nParticipate in build-versus-buy evaluations of sensors, software frameworks, SDKs, and third-party technologies.\nQuality, Reliability & Safety\nDevelop and implement solutions that achieve reliability, latency, availability, robustness, scalability, and operational performance targets.\nEnsure systems perform reliably in challenging real-world environments, including changing environmental conditions, dynamic obstacles, and sensor degradation scenarios.\nSupport safety engineering activities including hazard analysis, FMEA, fault injection testing, and degraded-mode operation validation.\nImplement monitoring, diagnostics, observability, and health-management capabilities to improve system reliability and serviceability.\nAnalyze field performance data and support corrective actions, root-cause investigations, and continuous product improvements.\nBasic Qualifications\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Systems Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.\n5+ years of experience developing embedded systems for robotics, automotive, consumer electronics, aerospace, drones, or related products.\nStrong experience designing and developing embedded software and systems.\nExperience working across hardware, software, systems, and product development teams.\nStrong understanding of embedded architectures, sensor integration, and real-time software systems.\nExperience with systems engineering, requirements analysis, and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).\nExperience with requirements management tools such as Polarion, DOORS, or similar platforms.\nProven track record of translating customer requirements into production-ready products.\nProven ability to independently solve complex technical challenges and deliver high-quality products.\nExperience with system integration, validation, and troubleshooting.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with robotics software frameworks and middleware, including ROS and ROS 2.\nFamiliarity with Agile development processes, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices.\nExperience with perception systems, sensor processing, computer vision, and machine learning technologies.\nExperience deploying ML-based perception or inference systems on embedded hardware platforms.\nExperience with Linux-based embedded systems and debugging tools.\nExperience optimizing software workloads on embedded CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, or hardware accelerators under real-time constraints.\nFamiliarity with Automotive SPICE, ISO 26262, functional safety, or safety-critical robotics development processes.\nKnowledge of cybersecurity principles and secure embedded system design.\nExperience with microprocessor-, MCU-, FPGA-, or DSP-based architectures and hardware/software integration.\nExperience with embedded communications protocols and interfaces such as CAN, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, UART, USB, and wireless technologies.\nExperience working in startup, incubation, or fast-paced product development environments.\nTraits we seek:\nCuriosity-driven problem solvers who investigate deeply and think systemically.\nConfident leaders who empower teams, set direction, and earn trust.\nHands-on learners with an experimental, builder mindset.\nResilient thinkers who see challenges as opportunities to learn and improve.\nPrivacy Notice - Active Candidates: https://www.aptiv.com/privacy-notice-active-candidates\nAptiv is an equal employment opportunity employer. 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