Staff IVI Simulation & Tooling Engineer

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Staff Software Engineer generalist developing IVI software tools for Honda's Electric Vehicle market. Join an innovative team to enhance digital experiences in automotive technology.

Posted 6/20/2026full-timeMountain View • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $248,000 - $292,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidKotlin

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Help set up development environments and best practices.
Work with Leadership/Manager and Product Owners to agree upon initial activities and prioritized backlog.
Collaborate to determine prioritized implementation plans for backlog items.
Kick off the implementation of backlog items and see through to release.
Help develop faster go-to-market approaches, including accelerated testing in virtual environments.
Take the initiative to explore how Agentic AI can be incorporated into our virtual rigs.
Work with Honda vendors that are dependencies.
Take a technical lead in the next IVI iterations and next-generation platforms.
Occasional travel to Japan.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum 10 years of experience in HMI vehicle software development.
Android Automotive Platform experience.
Android Automotive
Application layer experience.
Experience architecting, building, and deploying IVI environments.
Take a lead in evolving observability, logging and telematics best practices.
Fluent in at least: Kotlin, C++.
A flexible attitude and entrepreneurial mindset. Be willing to engage outside of your usual responsibility area, learn new technologies and tackle challenges beyond IVI.

Benefits

Comp & perks

This is the position's total compensation package including the company's bonus structure.
This position also comes with full benefits.

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Hard Skills & Tools

HMI vehicle software developmentAndroid Automotive PlatformApplication layer developmentIVI environment architectureKotlinC++observability best practiceslogging best practicestelematics best practices

Soft Skills

flexible attitudeentrepreneurial mindsetinitiativecollaborationleadership