Power & Network Management Architecture
Own the power and network architecture across our vehicle platform
The Vision
We build the software platform that makes software-defined vehicles trustworthy, safety-critical middleware, connectivity, and software update capabilities running in commercial vehicles on public roads. The architecture decisions we make today will be in production for a decade, so getting them right from the start is a necessity, not a preference.
Why This Area Matters
Power and network management sit at the hardware/software boundary, and once a platform is in production these decisions are among the most expensive to change. A poor sleep/wake architecture means wasted energy, unreliable networks, and costly hardware respins; a good one is invisible. This is where great architecture has the highest leverage on the entire platform.
The Platform Context
Our platform consists of two HPCs and one Connectivity Unit, each HPC containing a SoC (running QNX, Linux, and Android via virtualisation) and an MCU (safety-critical real-time layer). Power and network management must coordinate sleep and wake across operating systems within a chip, across chips within an ECU, and across ECUs in the vehicle.
The Role
We are looking for an architect to own power and network management architecture across our platform, working directly with capability owners to provide the direction, patterns, and constraints they need. This is not a hands-off governance role, you will produce concrete artefacts that unblock engineering and shape decisions that cannot easily be revisited.
What You Will Deliver
Architecture Design Boundary and System Context, where power and network management begins and ends, and how it interfaces with the platform
Reference Architecture, a context-specific white book of directions, patterns, and design requirements for the domain
Design Constraints, domain, capability, and system-specific constraints feeding directly into development
Critical Architecture Decisions, identify and resolve the questions that must be settled before capability owners can proceed
Architecture Analysis Records, documented analysis of key choices, trade-offs, and rationale
The Concrete Problems You Will Solve
Active challenges on our platform today:
MCU network management, AUTOSAR Classic NM stack coordinating sleep/wake across multiple CAN channels, partial networking, and TC10 PHY sleep/wake for Ethernet, all with precise timing
SoC network management, QNX (NM master), Linux, and Android share a chip and must agree on network participation; the IPC between them and coordination with TC10 PHY needs end-to-end architecture
Graceful shutdown, defining "deep sleep" for MCU and SoC: what state is preserved or released, in what order, and how the system recovers cleanly on wake-up
Cross-ECU coordination, the two HPCs and the Connectivity Unit must coordinate network state so no ECU sleeps while another still depends on it
What We Are Looking For
You have a solid background in embedded automotive software architecture, with hands-on experience in AUTOSAR (Classic and/or Adaptive), vehicle network management, and E/E architecture, and you know the difference between designing for a lab and designing for a decade in the field.
Experience with partial networking, TC10, UdpNm, or multi-OS embedded environments is a strong advantage. On the power side, we particularly value cross-OS synchronisation for power management frameworks, suspend-to-RAM (S2R), a solid understanding of boot and sleep states and their safety impacts, and dynamic power management framework implementation.
Above all, you can take a complex, cross-cutting problem, define its boundaries, and produce architecture that engineers can actually build from, comfortable at the intersection of hardware constraints and software design, because that is where this role lives.
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- Department
- Technology
- Role
- Architecture
- Locations
- Lindholmen