Software Development Engineer I, Android, Auto Integration

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers. 

The Automotive Integration team onboards new automotive customers, integrates their embedded platforms with our product offerings, implements custom solutions on demand, and provides post-launch technical support. We monitor the quality of our products through key performance indicators (KPIs) collected from the automotive customer's hardware and ensure they use our SDKs most efficiently by fine-tuning our products accordingly. Our product is the entire Mapbox platform that makes a great in-vehicle navigation experience, from a fully functional integrated solution such as Mapbox Dash to individual components such as the Mapbox Maps SDK, targeting Linux Embedded platforms. Our solutions power experiences and operations for customers like BMW, GM, and Toyota, with the portfolio in rapid expansion.

https://www.mapbox.com/navigation

https://www.mapbox.com/automotive

We are looking for smart, fast-learning team players driven by the idea of interfacing directly with automotive customers and providing fine-tuned solutions to extract the best experience out of our products in their embedded environments, pushing the envelope of the best navigation solution in the market.

As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making. Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.

Joining us as a Software Engineer I (Android), you’ll play a key role in developing software for next-generation automotive navigation systems.

Your responsibilities will include:

•  Learn and understand the basic requirements of our automotive solutions and help map them to reference platforms, with guidance from senior team members;

• Write clean, fast code to integrate various data inputs required for our automotive navigation system product offerings, or provide custom-tailored solutions as needed.

• Support performance tuning of the automotive navigation experience using profiling and debugging tools.

• Work closely with internal teams to learn and apply best practices for cross-platform API design and performance optimization across different hardware and software setups.

• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure best practices for cross-platform API design and performance tuning for specific hardware and software combinations.

• Investigate and triage technical issues between Mapbox, customers, and Tier 1 partners.

• Improve the product’s performance, stability, maintainability, and simplicity.

• Location: You are based in the Helsinki Metro Area.

• Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with distributed teams and interact with customers or partners under guidance.

• Initial experience or strong interest in software development and customer-facing projects.

• Passion for programming and eagerness to learn about performance considerations in software development.

• Familiarity with Android development.

• Passionate to learn and keep customer trust. 

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.

• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.

• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.

• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

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We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.