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Accenture

Global professional services and technology consulting

Custom Software Engineering Lead

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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About the job

Requirements
  • A minimum of 5 years of experience is required.
  • A minimum of 6 years of experience in automotive embedded software and software-defined vehicle platform development across domains.
  • A BE/BTech or ME/MTech in Electronics, Electrical, Computer Science, Information Technology, or Embedded Systems Engineering, with 15 years of full-time education.
  • Advanced C++ proficiency for automotive service-oriented application development on AUTOSAR Adaptive or Linux platforms.
  • In-depth AUTOSAR Adaptive expertise, including ara::com, SOME/IP, DDS, ara::exec, ara::log, manifest authoring, and deployment configuration.
  • Experience architecting microservice-based vehicle applications, including service decomposition, API versioning, and lifecycle management.
  • Knowledge of Vehicle OS concepts, including SOAFEE, Eclipse SDV, AGL, container orchestration, Podman, and OCI image management.
  • Experience with OTA-aware application design, including feature delivery pipelines, staged rollout, rollback safety, and version compatibility.
  • Strong test-driven development skills, including GoogleTest, GoogleMock, pytest, and CI-integrated automated testing for software-defined vehicle applications.
  • Experience with ASPICE Level 2 and Level 3 software development processes and ISO/SAE 21434 secure-by-design principles.
  • Experience with SoC platforms from Qualcomm, Renesas, and NXP.
Responsibilities
  • Lead the design and implementation of cross-domain software-defined vehicle application service modules, including vehicle state management, feature delivery engines, remote service gateways, and in-vehicle artificial intelligence application hosting.
  • Define software-defined vehicle application software architecture, including microservice decomposition, service mesh patterns, API contract governance, and lifecycle management design.
  • Drive AUTOSAR Adaptive application development, including ara::com service provider and consumer design, ara::exec process lifecycle management, and ara::diag UDS application services.
  • Lead integration of software-defined vehicle application software with Vehicle OS, including SOAFEE and Eclipse SDV container deployment specifications, resource quota management, and health supervision.
  • Architect an OTA feature delivery platform, including feature manifest management, staged rollout control, feature compatibility gating, and activation safety checks.
  • Develop an in-vehicle artificial intelligence inference application framework, including model-serving middleware, NPU/GPU runtime abstraction, and inference pipeline management for software-defined vehicle compute.
  • Lead vehicle-to-cloud application service integration, including bidirectional event streaming, vehicle digital twin synchronization, and real-time telemetry pipelines.
  • Conduct design reviews and code reviews, and mentor software-defined vehicle application developers in service-oriented design patterns and AUTOSAR Adaptive practices.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with automotive cybersecurity, including secure coding according to CERT C++, TLS/mTLS for service communication, and JWT certificate-based authentication.
  • Experience with in-vehicle artificial intelligence inference middleware, including TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, or TensorFlow Lite on automotive SoCs.
  • Knowledge of Eclipse Zenoh or DDS, including Fast DDS and Cyclone DDS, for latency-sensitive software-defined vehicle distributed application communication.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native vehicle application frameworks, including Eclipse Kuksa, Kuksa.val, Eclipse Leda, or COVESA data brokers.
  • Exposure to functional-safety-aware software-defined vehicle application design, including QM versus ASIL designation and safety tagging in service manifests.
  • Understanding of UNECE R156 OTA implications for application-layer feature delivery in software-defined vehicle architectures.

About the company

Accenture is a global professional services firm that helps companies navigate technology-driven change. It offers strategies and services across consulting, digital, technology, and operations, with a strong emphasis on cloud, artificial intelligence, security, and enterprise reinvention. Accenture works by delivering end-to-end solutions, combining advisory work with implementation, technology platforms, and managed services to transform how organizations operate and compete in today’s digital world. The company differentiates itself through its long history as a dedicated tech-advisory arm that gained independence in 2001, its scale, and its active acquisitions—particularly since 2013—to expand capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. Its goal is to help the world’s largest corporations rethink and reshape their operations to stay ahead of rapid technological shifts.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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  • Fiscal 2026 revenue reached $74.18 billion, with bookings up 5% to $84.54 billion.
  • Management guided fiscal 2027 revenue growth of 3% to 6% and $9.5 billion returns.
  • Accenture added over 400 AI clients in fiscal 2026, expanding demand across enterprises.

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  • Fiscal 2026 consulting revenue grew only 1% locally, exposing weak core demand.
  • Accenture cut staff in a six-month 2026 optimization program costing $308 million.
  • AI productivity threatens the labor-arbitrage model if clients buy fewer billable hours by 2027.

What makes Accenture unique

  • Accenture and Google Cloud launched Horizon with Volvo Cars on September 22, 2026.
  • Accenture Edge and AWS launched six mid-market offerings for $300 million-$3 billion companies.
  • Accenture reached nearly 110,000 AI and data professionals after 46 million training hours in 2026.

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