Audio techstack: Automotive Android and QNX developer
Bosch Global8 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Analyze and refine requirements for automotive audio software components.
- Design and develop embedded audio software using modern C and C++.
- Develop, customize, and debug Android/AOSP Audio Framework and Audio HAL components.
- Work with AudioFlinger, AudioPolicyService/AudioPolicyManager, AudioService, Car Audio Framework, AIDL/HIDL, audio routing, and device management.
- Develop and maintain QNX/POSIX-based audio middleware, audio services, and audio-management components.
- Implement POSIX concepts including multithreading, inter-process communication, synchronization, shared memory, message queues, and sockets.
- Integrate audio software with DSP frameworks, operating-system services, HALs, and hardware interfaces.
- Analyze issues across application framework, middleware, HAL, operating system, DSP, and hardware layers.
- Support platform bring-up, integration, validation, and customer-specific audio configurations.
- Prepare and review high-level and low-level software designs, including UML-based designs.
- Perform unit testing with Google Test/GTest and contribute to CI/CD activities.
- Participate in design and code reviews, promote clean-code and software-quality practices, and provide technical guidance to team members.
Requirements
- 5–9 years of experience in software development.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical, Telecommunication, or a related engineering discipline.
- Hands-on experience with Android Automotive/AOSP and QNX-based embedded platforms.
- Strong Modern C++ experience, including C++11/14/17, object-oriented design, STL, memory management, multithreading, concurrency, and synchronization.
- Experience with Android Audio Framework, Audio HAL, audio middleware, audio management, audio routing, audio streaming, and audio device handling.
- Experience with QNX-based audio middleware or audio-management components; knowledge of QNX Sound Architecture and device-driver concepts is beneficial.
- Experience debugging Android with logcat, bug reports, and Tombstone logs.
- Understanding of embedded systems, RTOS concepts, Automotive Infotainment audio architecture, low-latency audio, amplifiers, and DSP integration.
- Familiarity with ALSA/TinyALSA and PCM/audio streaming is advantageous.
- Preferred experience with Qualcomm automotive audio architecture, DSP frameworks, QACT/QXDM, Qualcomm ACDB, Hypervisor-based IVI architectures, I2S, audio DSP processing, effects and tuning, and CAN/vehicle signals.
- Knowledge of UML/design tools, software design patterns, ISO 26262, and secure software development practices is preferred.
- Exposure to GitHub Copilot, LLMs, AI agents, or agentic workflows is an additional advantage.
- Familiarity with SAFe, Agile, and ASPICE is preferred.
About Bosch Global
Bosch Global (Robert Bosch GmbH) develops and sells mobility components and software, industrial automation and sensors, home appliances and power tools, and energy and building technologies to automakers, manufacturers, builders, and consumers. It monetizes through product sales and connected services spanning IoT, AI, and embedded software. Founded in 1886 and headquartered in Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, Germany, the privately held Bosch Group operates worldwide across Mobility, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology sectors.