ECU Hardware Integration Engineer
Summary
Integrate and validate hardware platforms for Mercedes-Benz cockpit, ADAS, and centralized computing systems, debugging issues across hardware, software, and suppliers.
Objectives
- Responsible for hardware platform enablement and integration activities for Cockpit, ADAS, and Centralized Computing platforms, supporting board bring-up, low-level hardware/software integration, interface validation, and technical issue analysis.
- Act as the technical bridge between hardware development teams and software development teams, enabling efficient platform bring-up, issue debugging, and product maturity improvement throughout the development process.
- As the primary technical investigation point for platform-level integration issues, supporting objective root cause analysis and ownership determination across hardware, software, suppliers, and validation teams.
Main tasks
1. Board Bring-up & Platform Enablement
- Support first power-on and board bring-up activities
- Verify power, reset, clock, boot, and key hardware functions
- Support platform enablement and initial hardware readiness assessment
- Identify and resolve board bring-up issues
2. Hardware & Software Integration
- Act as the technical interface between hardware and software teams
- Support integration of hardware platforms with BSP and low-level software
- Analyze and resolve hardware/software interaction issues
- Ensure successful enablement of platform functions and interfaces
3. Platform-Level Technical Issue Investigation
- Serve as the first technical investigation point for platform-level integration issues
- Analyze problems involving hardware, software, suppliers, and validation activities
- Determine technical ownership and root causes across multiple domains
- Support corrective action definition and issue closure
4. Supplier Hardware Integration Support
- Review and assess supplier-delivered hardware bring-up and integration status
- Validate supplier technical conclusions and issue analysis
- Support integration of supplier-developed hardware into local products and vehicle programs
- Coordinate technical discussions among suppliers and internal engineering teams
5. Interface Validation & Technical Debug
- Support validation of DDR, PCIe, Ethernet, USB, Display, Camera, SerDes, storage, and other critical interfaces
- Analyze logs, traces, measurements, and platform behavior
- Support low-level debugging and integration validation
- Verify effectiveness of corrective actions
6. Technical Knowledge Development
- Capture hardware/software integration lessons learned
- Develop integration guidelines and debugging methodologies
- Promote reusable integration knowledge and best practices
- Support hardware platform capability development