1 day ago
Pune, India or Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Implement and own VHAL property support end to end, including configurations, read/write paths, subscriptions, notifications, and error handling.
- Maintain VHAL connector layers for SocketCAN, SOME/IP, and proprietary IPC integrations with companion controllers.
- Extend the Android Car Framework, including CarPropertyManager, vendor CarManager implementations, permissions, SystemApi annotations, car-lib changes, and API updates.
- Extend the AOSP reference VHAL, property-injection tooling, mock signal generators, and emulator support for hardware-independent development.
- Profile hot paths, reduce redundant Binder-boundary copies, and tune subscription rates and resource characteristics.
- Lead root-cause analysis using dumpsys, logcat, systrace, Perfetto, bugreports, CAN traces, and SOME/IP captures, and drive field fixes through OTA.
- Write GTest, GMock, JUnit, Robolectric, Mockito, VTS, and device instrumentation tests.
- Author and maintain SELinux policies for owned services and resolve denials with narrowly scoped permissions.
- Review peer code, enforce coding and API-compatibility standards, contribute to design reviews, and mentor engineers on AOSP, VHAL, and debugging practices.
Requirements
- At least 7.5 years of experience in Automotive Digital Cockpit Solutions is required.
- At least 8 years of total experience and 3+ years in Android platform or automotive embedded systems, including hands-on VHAL or HAL-layer work.
- Advanced practical C++ proficiency, including C++14 or C++17, STL, smart pointers, templates, multithreading, mutexes, condition variables, and the AIDL NDK backend.
- Strong Java skills and competent Kotlin skills, including coroutines, null safety, and Java framework interoperability.
- Knowledge of Android internals, including Binder IPC, ServiceManager, system services, init and .rc files, SELinux, partition rules, HIDL versus AIDL HALs, and VINTF.
- Working knowledge of Android Car APIs, VehiclePropertyIds, vehicle-area types, CarPropertyValue, property permissions, and vendor permissions.
- Experience with at least one automotive network, such as CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, or Automotive Ethernet with SOME/IP.
- Ability to interpret SOME/IP service definitions and configure a vsomeip client, including routing manager, service discovery, and endpoint configuration.
- Experience working in an AOSP tree with repo sync, Android.bp authoring, target and incremental builds, adb sync, and adb remount.
- Exposure to C++, Java, Kotlin, Rust, Python, or Bash.
Benefits
- The position is based at the Accenture Bengaluru office.
- The role requires 15 years of full-time education.
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.