Resident Engineer - Riyadh

As Resident Engineer, you’ll act as the key technical interface between the customer and Aptiv, taking ownership of troubleshooting and driving resolution of complex system issues on-site. Working on ADAS Gen 6 projects, you’ll support a wide range of components—from radar and ultrasonic sensors to driver/passenger monitoring and central compute units—across L0 to L2+ autonomous driving. You’ll be hands-on with hardware and software, gathering requirements, analyzing issues, and ensuring timely delivery of features like cruise control, AEB, road sign recognition, and more.

Your role:

• Escalation of Technical Issues and Conflicting Activities to team leadership
• Ownership of customer problems, troubleshooting and driving corrective action.
• Responsible for coordination and delivery of the product solution hand-over to customer at milestones.
• Act as an interface between customer and APTIV
• Develop and debug test system configuration
• Identify component integration issues, and drive them to resolution by working with cross functional teams
• Support vehicle instrumentation to setup to record CAN data, post-process and analyze to resolve bugs and make performance improvements
• Perform evaluation road drives from system integration perspective.
• Verify system functionality and report defects on tested functions.
• Work on “Problem Ticket Analysis” and identifying the problem root cause.
• Gather any additional necessary customer information, e.g. milestone plans, contact persons, prototype needs, etc. and provide this to the product development team
• Facilitate access to customer specific tools and information systems for APTIV team members
• Support the team to provide data to customer specific information systems
• Support resolution of open issues and product testing at customer site
• Cooperate with the different R&D functions (SW, HW, Component Design and Application)

Your background:

• Degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Physics or equivalent discipline
• 1+ Years’ Experience in Software Development/Support of Electronic Control (Systems Engineering, Hard- & Software Engineering, Embedded Software Development)
• Excellent communication skills
• Knowledge about Product Development Processes or Software Development Processes (e.g.Spice), ideally founded experience in ISO26262 process or similar
• Experience Embedded System Testing and debugging / root cause analysis Familiar with CAN Tools or similar debugging and configuration tools.
• ADAS/AD system bring up on both bench level and vehicle level, alternatively experience within embedded system bring-up – not essential.