Senior System Engineer Radar SoC (m/w/d) - Product Line Detect

Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Would you like to shape the future of intelligent mobility together with us? Become part of our VALEO team and revolutionize the experience of autonomous and connected driving.

We are looking for YOU as Senior System Engineer Radar SoC (m/w/d) - Product Line Detect for our location in Bietigheim.

These challenges await you: 

• Supplier Steering & Roadmap Alignment: Act as the primary technical interface with key semiconductor suppliers (e.g., TI, Infineon, NXP, ST) to influence their product roadmaps and ensure future chipsets meet Valeo’s performance and cost requirements.

• HWA Optimization: Deep-dive into Hardware Accelerator (HWA) architectures to design and map radar algorithms (FFT, CFAR, Compression) that maximize throughput and minimize power consumption.

• Chip Capability Assessment: Evaluate and benchmark competitor chipsets, performing deep-dive analyses on internal architectures, memory bandwidth, and processing latencies.

• Technical Specification: Define high-level requirements for next-generation Radar SoCs, including ADC sampling rates, phase noise requirements, and integrated DSP/HWA capabilities.

• Architectural Integration: Collaborate with System and Hardware Architects to ensure the selected chip technology aligns with the overall radar sensor thermal, power, and PCB constraints.

• Expert Support: Provide high-level troubleshooting for complex issues related to chip-level bugs, hardware-software interface bottlenecks, or non-linearities in the RF front-end.

You inspire us with that:

• Education: Master’s or PhD in Microelectronics, Electrical Engineering, or Semiconductor Physics.

• Semiconductor Expertise: Extensive experience in Radar SoC architecture, including deep knowledge of RFCMOS technology and digital back-end processing.

• Algorithm Mapping: Proven track record of implementing complex signal processing algorithms specifically on Hardware Accelerators (HWA) or specialized DSPs.

• Radar Physics: Strong understanding of the interaction between silicon performance (e.g., noise figure, linearity, phase noise) and system-level radar KPIs.

• Strategic Communication: Ability to negotiate technical trade-offs with external suppliers and present complex architectural choices to Valeo senior management.

Why Valeo:

At VALEO, we firmly believe that great technologies are born out of passion.

• 💶 Compensation package. Performance-related salary components and company pension scheme (allowance).

• 💹 Career development. Scope to develop your own ideas as well as professional and personal development opportunities worldwide.

• 💚 Benefits. Allowances for sports, health, pension scheme, canteen, JobRad,  free employee parking spaces, regular employee events and social support for a family-friendly environment.

• 🌎 Flexibility. Working models that harmonize your professional and private life.

• 🍀Work environment. Flat hierarchies and modern working methods provide you with an innovative working environment.

• 🚙 The future. We work together on the mobility trends of tomorrow.

Good to know:

• Your contact person: Julia Mittelmaier / Julia.Mittelmaier@Valeo.com

• We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds as well as from people with disabilities.

• For data protection reasons, please submit your application documents exclusively online via the job portal on our website

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Job:

Engineering Disciplines

Organization:

Project System Software

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2026-04-13

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com