Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 3.5 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.
What We Do
The Automotive Integration team onboards new automotive customers, integrates their embedded platforms with our product offerings, implements custom solutions on demand, and provides post-launch technical support. We monitor the quality of our products through key performance indicators (KPIs) collected from the automotive customer's hardware and ensure they use our SDKs most efficiently by fine-tuning our products accordingly. Our product is the entire Mapbox platform that makes a great in-vehicle navigation experience, from a fully functional integrated solution such as Mapbox Dash to individual components such as the Mapbox Maps SDK, targeting both Android and Linux Embedded platforms.
Our solutions power experiences and operations for customers like BMW, Rivian, GM, and Toyota, with the portfolio in rapid expansion.https://www.mapbox.com/navigationhttps://www.mapbox.com/automotiveWe are looking for smart, fast-learning team players driven by the idea of interfacing directly with automotive customers and providing fine-tuned solutions to extract the best experience out of our products in their embedded environments, pushing the envelope of the best navigation solution in the market.
What You'll Do
Joining us as a Senior C++ Developer, you'll play a key role in developing software/tech for complex automotive navigation systems in Android and Linux Embedded platforms.Your responsibilities will include:
Understand the minimum requirements for our automotive solutions, map those against the reference platforms, and monitor KPIs by collecting metrics from the automotive customers' development benches or cars.
Write clean, fast code to integrate various data inputs required for our automotive navigation system product offerings, or provide custom-tailored solutions as needed.
Fine-tune the automotive navigation experience through profiling and debugging techniques to extract the best experience from our customer's automotive platforms.
Work with technical counterparts at customers and partners to discover requirements, provide implementation recommendations, and debug integrations.
Collaborate with internal teams to ensure best practices for cross-platform API design and performance tuning for specific hardware and software combinations.
Investigate and triage technical issues between Mapbox, customers, and Tier 1 partners.
Develop the best ways to solve technical challenges within existing technological and business constraints.
Improve the product’s performance, stability, maintainability, and simplicity.
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
Broad experience in software development and customer engagements.
Passionate about programming and a strong focus on performance aspects.
Experience with automotive compliance standards
Strong proficiency in the following areas:
Automotive operating systems: AGL, AOSP, Android Automotive
Programming languages: C++, Java, Kotlin
Scripting languages: Shell Script, JavaScript, Python
Build systems: CMake, Gradle, Ninja
Orchestration environments: Yocto, Docker
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with distributed teams and customers/partners. Must communicate fluently in English.
Experience with building frameworks and developer tools.
Passionate to earn and keep customer trust.
Helpful experiences that are a plus but not a requirement:
Automotive CAN bus experience.
Window management experience e.g. X11, Wayland.
Cross-platform experience with toolkits like Qt or Flutter.
What We Value
In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for life's unexpected events, and innovation in how we support our people.
We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
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