1 day ago
Pune, India or Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own VHAL components end to end, including VehiclePropConfig, property read/write paths, subscriptions, change notifications, status handling, testing, integration, and field-defect ownership.
- Implement and maintain connector layers between VHAL and vehicle buses using SocketCAN, SOME/IP, or proprietary IPC.
- Extend the Android Car Framework, vendor CarManager implementations, permissions, System APIs, car-lib, and API compatibility files.
- Extend the AOSP reference VHAL, property-injection tooling, mock signal generators, and emulator or reference support.
- Profile and optimize component performance, resource usage, Binder-boundary copies, and subscription rates.
- Lead root-cause analysis across applications, CarService, VHAL, vehicle buses, and fleet issues, driving fixes through OTA delivery.
- Write native, framework, VTS, and device instrumentation tests and author narrowly scoped SELinux policies.
- Review peer code, enforce coding and API-compatibility standards, mentor engineers, and contribute to adjacent design reviews.
Requirements
- Minimum 7.5 years of experience in Automotive Digital Cockpit Solutions.
- 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++14 or C++17 skills, including 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.
- Solid knowledge of Android internals, Binder IPC, ServiceManager, system services, init and .rc files, SELinux, partition rules, HIDL versus AIDL HALs, and VINTF.
- Working knowledge of the Android Car API, vehicle property identifiers and areas, CarPropertyValue, property permissions, and vendor-permission mechanisms.
- Practical experience with at least one onboard network, including CAN/CAN-FD with DBC decoding, LIN, or Automotive Ethernet with SOME/IP.
- Ability to interpret SOME/IP service definitions and configure a vsomeip client, including routing, 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 workflows.
- Experience or proficiency with C++, Java, Kotlin, Rust, Python, or Bash.
Benefits
- The position is based at the Accenture Bengaluru office.
- A minimum of 15 years of full-time education is required.
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.