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Senior Software Application Engineer, Positioning Products

Published date more than one year ago
Posted: more than one year ago
Company U-Blox
Company: U-Blox
Location Tampere
Location: Tampere

As a Senior Application Engineer you will be working in a dynamic and international team within the global Automotive Application Engineering Positioning team, providing technical assistance to worldwide customers and coordinating the support activities internally within the Product Development organization and respective R&D groups.
If you want to join an organization whose mission is to build cutting-edge technology that will shape the future of positioning technology in the Automotive market, this is the right opportunity for you!
To be successful in this role, you have a good understanding of both software (e.g. reference code, advice on embedded SW as well as u-blox SW support tools and libraries) and HW design (digital, and analog) concepts. You can communicate effectively with all stakeholders and understand the importance of customer support.

In this position you have the opportunity to work closely with several departments (product development, product managements, field application engineering and sales team) to help clear roadblocks towards commercializing automotive, consumer and industrial products within u-blox positioning technology as well as provide detailed technical and market feedback.
This is an exciting opportunity to make an immediate impact in delivering our world-class products and help customers fully utilize the performance capabilities of u-blox GNSS products. The position offers the potential to expand responsibilities with an interesting career development.



Your Responsibilities

  • Managing the technical customer support activities within the Automotive Application Engineering team
  • Supporting customers to integrate u-blox' GNSS drivers into their Android based devices
  • Creating technical documentation and presentations for customers
  • Proactively align and collaborate with the Product Management and R&D teams during product definition and development
  • Support the analysis of non-conformities and feed back to Quality and R&D for corrective actions
  • Host technical trainings and workshops for Field Application engineers and customers around the world.
  • Provide both internal and external support during customer design-in phase up to maintenance period

Your Skills and Experience

  • Master or Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
  • GNSS data analysis - receiving customer issues, analyzing data, identifying if the data is sufficient and triage the issues and hand-off to other members in u-blox GNSS organization as needed. This can require the use of existing or new tools
  • Ability to reconstruct and execute customer related issues if required using u-blox tools
  • Experience in C/C++ programming
  • Hands on experience with validation tools, development hardware, and test equipment.
  • Good understanding of GNSS technology, typical solution architectures and expected behavior of components
  • Experience with bug life cycle systems
  • Hands-on knowledge of embedded software and/or hardware design
  • Customer-oriented, able to quickly understand the system architecture of customer's application and advice field application engineers or key customer on possibilities, and consult on a technical level.
  • Excellent communication skills to interface with u-blox subsidiaries and customers around the world
  • Demonstrated work initiative as a self-starter with time management and prioritization skills, with ability to follow up actions to closure
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites and events in domestic and international locations
  • Fluent in English, other European or APAC language is a plus

Bonus Points

  • Previous experience in Global Positioning Systems (GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo)
  • Experience or good understanding of High Precision Technologies, RTK/VRS/OSR/SSR
  • Experience in embedded SW debugging and embedded development platforms (emulators/debuggers)
  • Experience in working with Android / Linux development environment and reference platforms (e.g. HiKey 960)
  • Scripting ability (Python, Matlab, Perl)
  • Hardware design experience (analog, RF, digital)