Audio techstack: Automotive Android and QNX developer
Bosch · Posted Oct 12
Mobility, industrial technology, consumer goods, and energy and building technology services
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About the role
The role sits within Bosch's automotive audio software team, working on Android Automotive/AOSP and QNX-based embedded infotainment platforms. The team covers the complete automotive audio stack, from the Android Audio Framework and Audio HAL to QNX audio middleware/management and DSP and hardware interfaces. This role designs, develops, integrates and debugs embedded audio software in Modern C/C++, supporting platform bring-up, validation and customer-specific audio configurations.
What you will do
- Analyze and refine requirements for automotive audio software components.
- Design and develop embedded audio software using Modern C/C++.
- Develop, customize, and debug Android/AOSP Audio Framework and Audio HAL components.
- Develop and maintain QNX/POSIX-based audio middleware, audio services and audio-management components.
- Work with POSIX concepts including multithreading, IPC, synchronization, shared memory, message queues and sockets.
- Integrate audio software with DSP frameworks, OS services, HAL and hardware interfaces.
- Analyze complex issues across Application Framework/Middleware , HAL, OS, DSP , Hardware layers.
- Support platforms 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 using frameworks such as Google Test/GTest and contribute to CI/CD activities.
- Participate in design and code reviews and drive clean-code and software-quality practices
- Provide technical guidance to team members and support cross-functional teams in resolving complex audio issues.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Must-Have Technical Skills - Embedded C++ 11/14/17 programming skills. Strong understanding of object-oriented design, STL, memory management, multithreading, concurrency and synchronization.
- QNX Hands-on development experience on QNX-based embedded systems. Experience with QNX-based audio middleware/audio-management components.
- Understanding QNX Sound Architecture and device-driver concepts is beneficial.
- Automotive Audio : Good understanding of audio routing and management, Audio streaming, Audio device handling Low latency audioInternal/external amplifiers DSP integration
- Strong system-level debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Android Automotive AudioHands-on experience with AOSP/Android Audio Framework.
- Experience with: AudioFlinger / AudioPolicyManager / AudioPolicyService / AudioManager / AudioService / Car Audio Framework / Audio routing and device management / Audio HAL / AIDL / HIDL
- Strong Android debugging using logcat, bug reports and Tombstone logs.
- Familiarity with ALSA/TinyALSA and PCM/audio streaming is advantageous.
- Good understanding of embedded systems and RTOS concepts.
- B.E./B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical, Telecommunication, or a related engineering discipline
- Exp- 5-9 years
- Experience with Qualcomm automotive audio architecture and DSP frameworks.
- Experience with Hypervisor-based IVI architecture.
- Hands-on knowledge of tools such as QACT/QXDM and Qualcomm ACDB.
- Knowledge of low-level audio interfaces such as I2S
- Knowledge of audio DSP processing, effects and tuning. Understanding of CAN/vehicle signals influencing audio behavior.
- Experience with UML/design tools and software design patterns. Familiarity with SAFe/Agile and ASPICE.
- Knowledge of ISO 26262 and secure software development practices.
- Exposure to AI-assisted software development tools such as GitHub Copilot; familiarity with LLMs/AI Agents/agentic workflows can be an additional advantage.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Bosch
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services, operating across mobility, industrial technology, consumer goods, and energy and building technology sectors. Driven by its purpose to create technology that is "Invented for life," the company leverages its expertise in hardware, software, and IoT to shape global trends such as automation, electrification, and artificial intelligence.
- Industry
- Automotive
- Company size
- 406225 employees
- Founded
- 1886
- Location
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Leadership
Chairman of the Board of Management
Deputy Chairman and Chief Financial Officer
Markus Heyn
Deputy Chairman and Chairman of Mobility
Frank Meyer
Member of the Board of Management
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