Italdesign is a service company providing design, engineering and production for the transportation industry, through to final testing and type-approval and support into starting of production and the design of complete Business models. Italdesign is based in Moncalieri, Torino, Italy and today has premises of more than 50.000 squared meters, a full-scale design and engineering campus and a cutting edge development and prototyping center. It has about 1000 employees in Italy, Germany and Spain. Italdesign offers its services to all interested parties worldwide. In 2017 Italdesign launched as additional business, a dedicated unit to design, develop and produce ultra-limited vehicles for all OEMs Worldwide: Italdesign Automobili Speciali. Research and innovation has enabled a continuous growth, along with the ability to choose competent and motivated people, united by a real and concrete passion for excellence. People are able to compete every day with the complexity and competitiveness of the market, able to work in integrated teams, to express their creativity in every field, to give the best of themselves in any conditions. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 Italdesign was recognized by Universum as one of the most attractive Italian companies and awarded as Top Employer in Italy.

Italdesign is looking for a specialist engineer to take a lead role in the development of connected vehicle systems.

The candidate will be employed in the Infotainment, Connected Car and User Interface team of the Electrical/Electronics Engineering of Italdesign, and be located in Wolfsburg. After an orientation phase, the successful candidate work within a specific customer project and fully be responsible for the Connectivity topics.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Project Manager and adhering to all necessary requests
• As a resident engineer the responsibility is work locally with the customer to act as the primary interface, with the support of a larger development team located elsewhere, for Italdesign this is Turin, Italy.
  • Understand current customer challenges and priorities and feedback to HQ.
  • Be the first point of contact for the customer in case of need, knowing who to escalate the topics to back in Italy.
  • Feedback and inform the customer on progress and results coming from the remote development team.
  • Represent Italdesign in local customer meetings, workshops and events.
  • “Hands on” with cars and testing as required to satisfy customer needs (e.g. represent Italdesign in test drive events)
  • Maintain and update vehicle and test benches with new releases of software, and perform basic tests, for example to reproduce problems.
  • Able to perform 1st analysis of technical problems and able to collect necessary data and system traces to engage the experts in Italy.
  • Liaise and support members of the wider team when travelling to the customer from Italy.
• Understand the E/E car architecture to accommodate requests for the connectivity of the infotainment system in the car including to other cars (V2V) and backend server infrastructure (V2I).
• Establish and maintain an overview of the customer’s entire automotive cloud ecosystem (incl. Backend technologies).
• Coordinate with suppliers
• Generate technical reports and various presentation materials to communicate issues, achievements, and technical information for project evaluations and information sharing across the organization.

• Domain expertise and experience in Connectivity, covering backend (V2I) and car-to-car (V2V), ideally Celluar-V2X. (Note: the role is for applications of communications technology at the higher protocol levels, and not the low-level development of the communication channel itself, but experience in this area and a desire to move “up the chain” can be given consideration);
• Experience in designing and integrating Backend Services;
• Knowledge of the latest communication protocols (e.g. SOME/IP)
• Knowledge of the latest IT security requirements (e.g. secure Service Orientated Architecture);
• Experience with test case definition and test execution management;
• Knowledge of in-vehicle communication and associated tools (e.g. CAN, Ethernet and Vector Tools);
• Experience with both Waterfall and Agile Scrum methodologies;

• Education: Masters degree in Electronic Engineering, Communication Technology, Computer Science or a closely related topic is expected to be the minimum.
• Language skills: Knowledge of written and spoken German and English (at least level B2/C1 ) is mandatory. Knowledge of Italian would be appreciated.
• Workplace: Wolfsburg and availability to travel according to project needs.

All genders welcome

Just for reasons of easier readability, only the grammatical male form is used in person names.

This always means people of every gender identity. We embrace diversity, actively encourage inclusion and create an environment that fosters each employee’s individuality in the interests of the company.