Embedded Software Engineer

Daimler Truck North America 

📍 Portland, United States 🇺🇸

full-time
mid-level
117000
on-site
Posted —

Key Skills

energymanagementvalidationMathworksECU

Industry

AutomotiveEnergy

Job Description


What You Drive at DTNA

  • Lead development of vehicle-level energy management strategies across the full development lifecycle (modeling, simulation, embedded implementation and validation)
  • Balance competing demands such as range, performance, durability, and driver comfort under real-world conditions
  • Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams for hardware, software, electrical systems and vehicle integration
  • Lead or contribute to validation activities for energy management controls in MiL, SiL, HiL and in-vehicle testing
  • Correlate simulation results to real-world vehicle behavior, understand differences and maximize energy management systems outputs for a higher overall vehicle performance and high durability
  • Use connected vehicle data to understand how e-systems perform in real operations including in fleet usage and make recommendations to improve efficiency and robustness for current and next-generation of e-vehicles
  • Ensure alignment across requirements, models, software and validation results
  • Contribute to continuous improvement using a structured engineering approach
  • Provide technical leadership in energy management, help drive decisions, priorities and system-level solutions across engineering teams
  • Strong systems thinking and cross-domain problem-solving skills
  • Ownership mindset from concept through vehicle validation
  • Effective collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering teams


Knowledge You Should Bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering and/or Computer Science with 5-7 years of relevant experience or 8+ years of experience in lieu of degree
  • Strong technical expertise in energy management in BEVs
  • Experience in developing production-intent control strategies for BEVs
  • Expert experience with Mathworks toolchain, Vector tools, dSpace or equivalent HiL platform
  • Familiarity with embedded systems, ECU integration and vehicle communication networks
  • Good knowledge of SEDP or equivalent V-model development processes
  • Experience in multi-stage validation environments (MiL, SiL, HiL and vehicle)
  • Strong written and verbal communication; able to present technical tradeoffs, risks, and decisions to diverse audiences.
  • Strong work ethics, highly motivated, and ability to drive results in a collaborative engineering environment.


Exceptional Candidates Might Have

  • Experience with heavy-duty or Class 8 vehicle applications
  • Experience with predictive or optimization-based energy management
  • Familiarity with embedded automotive software development environments and interfaces between controls models and production ECUs
  • Proven success working in globally distributed teams (e.g., coordinating deliverables across multiple engineering centers) consistent with global coordination expectations
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and building sustainable team practices (planning, metrics, review cadence, technical standards)
  • Experience applying modern engineering tools (automation, data analytics, AI-assisted engineering) to improve development efficiency, validation quality, or requirements traceability
  • Familiarity with connected vehicle data systems and fleet analytics

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Position offers a salary range of $117,000 to $150,000 USD

Pay offered dependent on knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits include annual bonus program; 401k company contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of 3 - 7% depending on age; starting at 4 weeks paid vacation; 13+ calendar holidays; 8 weeks paid parental leave; employee assistance program; comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs; onsite fitness (at some locations); tuition assistance and volunteer paid time off; short-term and long-term disability plans.