Lead Engineer

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Company Overview

Valeo is the world leading provider of driving assistance systems to automotive manufacturers. In 2014, Valeo’s Comfort &
Driving Assistance Group recorded €2.3 B in sales. Valeo Vision Systems (VVS) is Valeo’s automated parking and computer
vision research hub. From being first to market Europe with a rear camera and surround view systems to producing next-
generation vision systems and autonomous driving products, VVS has long been at the cutting edge of development in
automotive vision applications.

Position Overview

As an embedded software engineer, you will be responsible for the embedded development of perception algorithms and
supporting functions enabling Automated Driving Assistance Systems on state of the art multi-core automotive SoCs.
Examples of such algorithms include: pedestrian detection, structure from motion, lane detection, park slot detection and
object detection and classification. Your responsibilities will extend to software architecture design, reviewing algorithm
design, module adaptation and optimisation in a real time multi-core automotive system.

Responsibilities

 Develop and adapt perception algorithms and supporting functions on embedded platforms for automated driving
applications
 Work on state of the art multithreaded, multi-core SoC platform running RTOS, VHDL and DSP
 Work on product development compliant with automotive processes and standards like ISO26262, SPICE
 Perform research into new embedded architectures/platforms to ensure the organisation remains abreast of all
leading edge/emerging automotive vision technologies
 Opportunity to work on next generation SOC platforms in complex systems for leading OEMs in the automotive
industry
 Support Intellectual Property activities and generate Invention Disclosure Memos to facilitate patent applications.
 Role may require occasional travelling to other company/customer locations

Required Skills/Experience

 5+ years of experience with software development using C/C++ on embedded platforms (e.g. ARM and DSP)
 2+ years of Embedded DSP development (i.e. TI or similar SOCs)
 Able to understand the VHDL programming
 Experience in FPGA is a plus
 Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics
 Familiarity with resource/load sharing and synchronisation techniques for multi-core processing
 Knowledge of basic computer vision algorithms and image formats
 Background in development tools and methodologies (build systems, configuration management-Git/Hg etc.)
 Excellent written and spoken English language skills
 High level of innovation and motivation
 Knowledge of embedded processor internals (specific hardware blocks and peripherals).
 Exposure to object oriented software design principles

Desired Attributes
 Experience with parallel programming in CUDA, or OpenCL
 Understanding of prototyping/scripting tools such as MATLAB, Python, OpenCV etc.
 Familiarity with documenting software architecture and design using UML or similar tools
 Automotive industry experience

Job:

R&D Engineer

Organization:

Software Development

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2023-07-13

Join Us ! Being part of our team, you will join: - one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development - a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration - more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth - a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com