Systems Engineer (Telematics)

Telematics Systems Engineer

Cross Country is currently expanding our Telematics department due to the explosive growth in the market.Come work for a company on the cutting edge of technology with existing relationships within the Automotive OEM and Insurance markets. We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to lead the development of emerging Telematics features and services. Demonstrate these features and services to potential clients. You would be the primary link between the development group in explaining, demonstrating and developing the end to end solution during the products lifecycle. 

The ideal candidate has an aptitude to grasp a general knowledge of multiple disciplines and technologies.  The ability to proactively interact with various functional groups and work independently in high-pressure situations.  Knowledge or experience of telematics and/or and/or telecomm and/or automobile industry preferred. In addition:



· Technical expert of a specific area (e.g. interface design, telephony/telematics solutions, navigation)

· Demonstrated ability to root cause hardware & software failures and determine appropriate corrective actions

· High level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult

· Understanding of engineering theory and principles of design

  Basic Required:

· BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

· Lead experience while actively developing software

· Object Oriented Analysis and Design (5+ years)

· High degree of written and oral communication skills

· Familiar with web services,  Simple Network Management Protocol, Java Massaging Service, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and Unified Modeling Language (UML)

· Sever and network configuration, VPN’s, Firewalls, databases

· Experience throughout entire systems development life-cycle

· Enthused by the characteristics of a rapid development environment

Basic Preferred:

· Automotive Experience

· Web service and web service client development in either Java, .NET, C#, C++

· Web application development in either Java, .NET, C#, C++

· Knowledge in one or more of the following:  wireless voice and data communications protocol development, GPS, IT architecture, network topology, design and analysis.

· Wired/Wireless Communication and Session Protocols
o TCP/IP, SIP, CDMA, GSM, 3G

· Short Range Wireless
o Bluetooth

· Mobile Devices
o J2ME, WML, Brew

· Agile or XP Modeling and Programming Experience

· Experience with Telematics/Wireless industry and/or call centers

· Experience with vehicle systems development (E.g. Telematics, Navigation)

· Experience with messaging solution architectures

· Experience with Digital Audio Processing & Acoustics

· Experience with Speech Recognition 

· Experience with Vehicle bus communications

· Experience developing applications that use TCP/IP socket communication

· Experience developing software for hardware interfacing and data acquisition (digital I/O, analog I/O, serial bus, Ethernet, RS-232, audio)

· Enthusiasm and desire to develop test automation software to improve product quality and reduce validation cycle time