Software Engineer III, Vehicle System Integration

We are   CARIAD , an automotive software development team with the Volkswagen Group. Our mission is to make the automotive experience safer, more sustainable, more comfortable, more digital, and more fun. To achieve that we are building the leading tech stack for the automotive industry and creating a unified software platform for over 10 million new vehicles per year.   We ’ re looking for talented, digital minds like you to help us create code that moves the world. Together with you, we ’ ll build outstanding digital experiences and products for all Volkswagen Group brands that will transform mobility. Join us as we shape the future of the car and everyone around it.

Role Summary:

The Sr Software Engineer, Integration is responsible for developing and maintaining deployment infrastructure and automation used to deliver CARIAD’s automated driving software onto target hardware, including vehicle and bench environments. This role focuses on building reliable deployment workflows for packaging, signing (where applicable), distribution, and flashing of ADAS software, and improving deployment reliability and observability in local and CI/CD environments.

The Sr Software Engineer, Integration, collaborates closely with software development, integration, test, and release teams to enable efficient vehicle-level deployments, support integration milestones, and reduce cycle time for software delivery.

Role Responsibilities:

Deployment Tooling Automation

Develop and maintain deployment tooling to package, validate, and deliver ADAS software to bench and vehicle targets

Build reproducible deployment environments and toolchains (local, CI, and cloud) to support consistent outcomes

Implement automation that connects build artifacts, release candidates, and deployment consumers

​ Vehicle Flashing Integration Support

Develop and maintain flashing and provisioning workflows to install ADAS software on vehicles and lab systems

Work with ECU diagnostics sessions and network transports (e.g., UDS/DoIP/CAN/Ethernet) in partnership with embedded team

Support integration events by enabling repeatable build-to-vehicle deployment and recovery procedures

CI/CD Integration Release Readiness

Integrate deployment tooling into CI/CD pipelines to enable automated checks and gated deployments aligned with program standards

Support artifact promotion, versioning, and traceability across branches, manifests, and hardware/vehicle variants

Collaborate with release management to improve release automation and readiness criteria

Support release-readiness activities by coordinating deployment validation on benches/vehicles and capturing evidence from gating checks

Observability Issue Resolution

Instrument deployment pipelines with logs/metrics and track deployment success rates, cycle time, and failure modes

Perform root-cause analysis of deployment, flashing, and integration failures and contribute fixes across tooling and process

Contribute to best practices for rollback, recovery, and safe deployment in vehicle environments

Build or integrate operational monitoring that improves go/no-go decisions for deployments (e.g., environmental constraints, fleet/vehicle status signals)

Collaboration Documentation

Collaborate with cross-functional teams (software, embedded, test, vehicle operations) to align deployment requirements and constraints

Create and maintain documentation including deployment procedures, troubleshooting guides, and release notes

Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance deployment quality and engineering efficiency

​General Skills:

​ Strong analytical and debugging skills; able to triage cross-system integration issues to root cause

Strong software engineering fundamentals; writes clean, maintainable, testable production code

Effective written and verbal communication; able to explain technical concepts to diverse stakeholders

Able to contribute to technical discussions and provide peer feedback through collaboration and reviews

Able to work independently on moderately complex problems, exercising sound judgment in ambiguous environments

Collaborate effectively with multiple teams across geographies and time zones

​Required Specialized Skills:

​ Experience developing and maintaining deployment workflows for embedded software (artifacts to vehicle-ready packages)

Hands-on experience with vehicle flashing workflows and tooling (e.g., UDS, DoIP, CAN/Ethernet)

Experience with CI/CD and release tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Gerrit/Git, Artifactory)

Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, shell, YAML; Groovy or similar is a plus)

Experience with containerized environments and reproducible tooling (Docker)

Experience with image signing / packaging concepts and integrity verification (as applicable to releases)

Comfortable working in Linux environments; able to perform system-level debugging and log analysis

​Desired Skills:

​ Experience with OTA update syst…