Automotive Software Architect & Toolchain Engineer
Automotive Software Architect & Toolchain Engineer - Automotive or Electrical drive systems
Location: Norwich
Permanent | Hybrid / 3-4 days onsite per week
ARCA Resourcing is proud to partner with an innovative high-tech scale-up at the forefront of next-generation electric drive systems for automotive and mobility applications.
This is a rare opportunity for a Software Tools & Architecture Engineer to play a defining role in shaping the entire software engineering ecosystem - from embedded platforms and operating systems through to automated toolchains, verification environments, and model-based development workflows.
You’ll be joining a highly ambitious engineering organisation developing advanced electric drive technologies, where software quality, scalability, automation, and engineering excellence are central to product success.
The Opportunity
In this role, you will define, standardise, and continuously improve the software architecture and development toolchain used across complex embedded automotive systems. You will act as a key technical authority in shaping how software is built, integrated, tested, verified, and released.
This is a hands-on architecture role with significant influence across engineering disciplines, including embedded software, controls, systems, electronics, calibration, and validation teams.
A core focus will be driving automation, process maturity, and engineering efficiency aligned with ASPICE principles and functional safety expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and maintain end-to-end software architecture across embedded platforms, middleware, applications, and verification environments
- Establish software engineering standards, architectural patterns, coding practices, and development workflows
- Lead the design of scalable, automated development environments including CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and test automation frameworks
- Specify and integrate toolchains across requirements, modelling, coding, simulation, testing, calibration, diagnostics, and HIL environments
- Support and enhance model-based development using MATLAB/Simulink and auto-code generation workflows
- Drive implementation of automated verification strategies including MIL, SIL, PIL, and HIL testing
- Improve software quality through metrics, dashboards, traceability, and continuous process improvement
- Ensure alignment with ASPICE, functional safety, cybersecurity, and product engineering requirements
- Collaborate across multi-disciplinary engineering teams to ensure architectural consistency and toolchain integration
- Evaluate and introduce emerging technologies to enhance development efficiency and system performance
Key Skills & Experience
- Strong background in software architecture for embedded automotive or electric drive systems
- Experience building or improving software toolchains, CI/CD pipelines, and automated development workflows
- Working knowledge of MATLAB/Simulink and model-based development approaches
- Understanding of ASPICE-aligned automotive software processes
- Awareness of functional safety principles in embedded software environments
- Experience with automated testing, static analysis, version control, and requirements traceability
- Strong embedded software understanding (C/C++, real-time systems, diagnostics, calibration desirable)
- Experience working across cross-functional engineering teams
- A proactive mindset with the ability to introduce process improvement and automation
Why Apply?
This is a high-impact role where your work will directly shape how next-generation electric drive software is engineered, validated, and delivered. You’ll have genuine influence over architecture decisions, tooling strategy, and engineering best practices in a fast-moving, innovation-led environment.