Senior Staff Software Engineer – Automotive Motor Control Tools (f/m/div)
Infineon Technologies24 hours ago
Ilmenau, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop communication layers and graphical user interfaces for the PC tools landscape.
- Design, implement, test, and maintain customer-facing desktop applications using C++, Qt, and Python.
- 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 and collaborate with technical marketing, system architects, and software developers.
Requirements
- University degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a comparable software-focused field.
- At least five years of relevant professional software development experience, including GUI development with C++, Qt, and Python.
- Practical understanding of motor-control concepts including PWM, current sensing, PID control, and field-oriented control, with experience using associated configuration or tuning tools.
- Experience in embedded software development using SPI, CAN, and LIN interfaces and protocols on ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers.
- Automotive semiconductor experience.
- Experience with agile software development using Scrum.
- Ability to collaborate across software, hardware, and application engineering teams and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.
- Fluent written and spoken German and English at B2/C1 level.
Benefits
- The position is part of Infineon's Research & Development team in Ilmenau.
- The company emphasizes diversity, inclusion, trust, openness, respect, and equal opportunity.
- Interview accommodations are available upon request.
About Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies designs and manufactures semiconductors for automotive, industrial, and IoT applications, including power devices, microcontrollers, sensors, and security ICs. The Germany-based public company, spun out of Siemens in 1999 and headquartered in Neubiberg near Munich, sells chips and reference solutions to OEMs and device makers worldwide. It trades on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ETR: IFX) and expanded its portfolio with the 2020 acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor.