System Architect

Overall responsibilities and duties:

Our Faurecia Clarion Electronics (FCE) Business Group - Engineering Division is looking for an experienced System Architect to be based at Pune Location.

The System Architect is responsible to lead the definition, governance, and evolution of system architectures for next-generation Automotive Cockpit, Infotainment, Cockpit Domain Controller (CDC), ADAS Visualization, Display, and Interior Monitoring products.

The System Architect serves as the technical design authority and bridges customer requirements, system engineering, software, hardware, mechanical, validation, cybersecurity, and functional safety teams to deliver scalable, reusable, and cost-optimized solutions throughout the complete product lifecycle from RFQ to SOP.

Qualifications:

• Master / Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics / Computer Science or related.

Experience:

• 10-14 years of experience in electronic product system design in automotive domain preferable in Cockpit and ADAS product areas
• Experience in Architecting end-to-end solutions in IVI, ADAS, IMS/DMS, Display, and Accessories domains.
• Minimum 5 years in System Engineering or Architecture roles.
• Experience working directly with OEM customers.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical teams.

Key Mission

The System Architect is accountable for:

• Defining end-to-end product architecture.
• Translating stakeholder needs into executable system solutions.
• Establishing hardware-software partitioning strategies.
• Driving architecture trade-off decisions.
• Ensuring ASPICE-compliant system development.
• Supporting Functional Safety and Cybersecurity architecture.
• Driving platform reuse and technology roadmap alignment.
• Acting as technical authority during customer engagements and RFQs

Primary Accountabilities

1. System Architecture Ownership

• Define, maintain, and govern complete system architecture across the product lifecycle.
• Establish Functional, Logical, Physical, and Deployment Architectures.
• Define system boundaries, interfaces, and allocation of functionality.
• Manage architecture changes resulting from customer or program evolution.
• Establish traceability between stakeholder requirements and architecture artifacts.
• Lead architecture reviews and design gate assessments.

2. Hardware-Software Co-Design

• Define hardware-software partitioning strategy.
• Allocate functions to SoC, MCU, DSP, GPU, accelerator, and peripheral devices.
• Define CPU, GPU, memory, storage, thermal, boot-time, and performance budgets.
• Evaluate alternative architectures and technology trade-offs.
• Optimize system resource utilization and scalability.

3. Product Areas

Drive architecture for:

• Infotainment Systems
• Cockpit Domain Controller
• Digital Cluster
• Multi-display Platforms
• Camera Monitoring Systems
• Driver Monitoring Systems
• Interior Monitoring Systems
• ADAS Visualization
• Rear Seat Entertainment
• Connected Services
• Smartphone Connectivity
• Navigation Solutions
• Voice Assistants

4. Multi-OS & Virtualization Architecture

• Define architectures involving:
• Android Automotive
• Linux
• QNX
• RTOS Platforms
• Develop strategies for:
• Hypervisors
• Containerization
• Multi-core partitioning
• Resource allocation
• Virtual machine communication
• Security isolation

Experience with modern virtualization architectures is strongly preferred.

5. Vehicle Communication Architecture

Define system architectures using:

• Automotive Ethernet
• CAN / CAN-FD
• LIN
• SOME/IP
• DDS
• UDS
• DoIP
• OTA/FOTA
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Support network performance analysis and vehicle integration activities.

6. Functional Safety & Cybersecurity

Collaborate with Program Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Leads to:

• Develop system safety concepts.
• Support HARA, FSC and TSC activities.
• Define safety mechanisms.
• Define security architecture.
• Implement secure boot concepts.
• Define secure communication mechanisms.
• Support OTA security strategies.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 26262 and ISO 21434.

7. ASPICE Compliance

Primary ownership:

• SYS.2 System Requirements Analysis
• SYS.3 System Architectural Design

Support:

• SYS.1 Stakeholder Requirements
• SYS.4 System Integration
• SYS.5 System Qualification

Drive process compliance and work-product quality throughout development.

8. System Integration & Validation Support

• Define system integration strategy.
• Support verification planning.
• Review integration readiness.
• Support root cause analysis of system issues.
• Participate in customer issue resolution taskforces.
• Review architecture compliance evidence and validation results.

9. RFQ, Innovation & Cost Optimization

• Support customer RFQs and technical proposals.
• Define platform reuse strategies.
• Drive architecture standardization.
• Lead technical feasibility studies.
• Identify Value Engineering (VAVE) opportunities.
• Support technology roadmap planning.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends.

Mandatory Technical Competencies

System Engineering

• Requirements Engineering
• Functional Analysis
• System Decomposition
• Interface Management
• Architecture Trade-off Analysis
• Technical Risk Management
• DFMEA

Process

• ASPICE
• Automotive Product Development Lifecycle
• Change Management
• Release Management

Modeling

• SysML
• UML
• Enterprise Architect
• IBM Rhapsody

Requirements Tools

• DOORS
• DNG
• Polarion

Collaboration Tools

• JIRA
• Confluence
• ALM Platforms

Validation

• CANoe
• System Integration
• Vehicle Network Analysis

Nice to have Competencies

• AI-Enabled Cockpit Systems
• LLM-based In-Vehicle Assistants
• Edge AI Frameworks

Mindset/Attitude:

• High Communication skill, ability to express information in a manner appropriate to different levels of people & to lead negotiations
• High Customer Satisfaction Skill, ability to recognize, respond to customer expectations with sense of urgency and even increase expectations
• High in Initiative & Execution skill, Ability to take actions, decisions in promised timely manner
• Very high Ownership/Commitment skill, Ability to take full responsibility for decisions & results even when all elements are not under individual direct control