Senior Software Engineer – SW Integrator (Ulm or Aachen Hybrid)

Role Highlights

Your Workplace

• Ulm, Germany
• Hybrid

Your Day-to-Day

• Contract type: Employee
• Experience level: Senior
• Full-Time (40 hrs/wk)

Your Rewards

About the Role

Fantastic opportunity to work in conjunction with our partner on top leading-edge technology driving innovation in the automotive marketplace. Working closely with our client’s and the Cerence project team, you will be responsible for integration and delivery of the Cerence software packages for our customers.

As a Software Integrator you define the speech framework software package in cooperation with customers and R&D, and define and develop the interfaces of software packages to HU telematics systems.

Your responsibilities

• Participate in the design and implementation of a hybrid voice recognition system in which audio is simultaneously streamed to an embedded solution as well as on of multiple cloud solutions. Work involves processing and arbitrating the results.
• Analysis of costumer product requirements
• Setup and maintain CI/CD environment
• Support SW release cycles and back integration of platform releases
• Support integration of internal SW component deliveries
• Setup environment and support testing on development- and on the actual infotainment system
• Review and investigate issues based on tickets, traces and other issue reports
• Partner closely with customers, other department like QA and QM and internal team members to establish and maintain clear, concise communication through regular reporting, meeting participation, and follow-upContribute to advancing technologies and services by providing input and recommendations from project experiences

Required skills

• Minimum years of work experience: 5
• Software development experience, preferably for automotive and in connection with Android.
• Strong knowledge of Linux as the host OS for building SW
• Experience with CI/CD and build systems (Make, Gradle, Jenkins, Docker, GitLab Runners)
• Source control tools (Git/GitLab and Artifactory)
• Experience in programming (Gradle, Java, Kotlin Python, Shell-Script, C/C++)
• Ability to set-up and hardware equipment in support of software development tasks (i.e. configure software on target device, connect cabling/power suppliers, etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to master new technologies and tools quickly
• Strong team player and customer focus

Preferred skills

• Agile software development processes (e.g. Scrum)
• Experience with Unit Test Frameworks (Google Test and JUnit)
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Jira and Confluence)
• Experience with voice recognition software or multimedia streaming

Education

• Bachelor or master’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Software Engineering, Computer Linguistics

What we offer

• Committed to Innovation in Our Culture:
• Flexible Working Options
• Cerence Celebrates: Rewards & Recognition Platform
• Wellbeing & Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Resource Groups & Social Initiatives
• Dedicated Volunteer Hours

What You Bring

Skills

• Engineering
• Software

About Us

Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world. Spun out from Nuance in October 2019, Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns. Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.

As Cerence looks to the future and continues an ambitious growth agenda, we need someone to join the team and help build the future of voice and AI in cars. This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence’s passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry.

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