IoT Application Engineer

What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
Magna is more than one of the world's largest suppliers in the automotive space. We are a mobility technology company built to innovate, with a global, entrepreneurial-minded team. With 65+ years of expertise, our ecosystem of interconnected products combined with our complete vehicle expertise uniquely positions us to advance mobility in an expanded transportation landscape.
Job Responsibilities:
As an IoT Application Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying Internet of Things (IoT) applications. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including software engineers, hardware engineers, and product managers to bring IoT solutions from concept to reality. Your role will involve understanding customer requirements, architecting IoT solutions, coding, testing, and debugging applications, as well as providing technical support to clients.
Your Responsibilities
• Build and test IoT microservices to support APIs, MQTT topics, and business logic.• Build and test data structures to support telemetry, usage, and business data.• Provide expertise and guidance for Cloud solutions to product, firmware, and mobile teams.• Optimization of microservices to be cost effective and fast.• Provide support to software design, and implementation of software components related to our IoT connected products. Utilize efficient and compact software to balance tradeoffs spanning the cloud, device firmware, connected applications, and other backend systems.• Collaborate with Embedded Software Engineers, Mobile Developers, DevOps, Quality Assurance.• Evaluate security best practices, trends, and typical models to identify and recommend appropriate solutions for connected products to meet stringent requirements.• Responsible for software architecture, design, and implementation of software components related to our IoT connected products.• Develop efficient and compact software to balance tradeoffs spanning the cloud, device firmware, connected apps, and other backend systems.• Actively contribute to and support challenging software implementation by creating the critical code foundation on top of which other members of the team can build
Who we are looking for
• Practical experience developing in various object-oriented programming and scripting languages (e.g., Node.JS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Golang, C#, Java).• Practical experience building data structures (e.g., relational, document, graph) and data sources (e.g., NoSQL, RDBMS, files) for various data types.• Practical experience designing and controlling APIs for consistency, simplicity, and extensibility.• Strong AWS microservice development e.g., Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon Cognito, Amazon API Gateway, DynamoDB, AWS IoT Core, Kinesis, SNS, SQS.Our IoT outlook strives for consumer interaction with our products in new and unique ways
Your preferred qualifications
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.• Around 5-8 years of experience building microservices.• Strong Software Engineering background with progressively increased responsibility, including architecting and developing components or features.• Practical experience in developing on cloud systems (AWS preferred, optionally Azure and GCP).• Strong understanding of IoT solutions, having built or been part of a team that delivered an IoT solution
Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
Worker Type:
Regular / Permanent
Group:
Magna Corporate