Connected Vehicle Platform Engineer
Summary
Engineer who owns the cloud and IoT backbone for Textron's autonomous connected vehicles, building edge-to-cloud data pipelines on AWS (Kinesis, S3, Lambda, SageMaker), managing ML infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD, and enabling secure OTA deployments, fleet telemetry, and analytics.
Textron Specialized Vehicles Inc. is a leading global manufacturer of golf cars, utility and personal transportation vehicles, professional turf-care equipment, and ground support equipment. Textron Specialized Vehicles markets products under several different brands. Its vehicles are found in environments ranging from golf courses to factories, airports to planned communities, and theme parks to hunting preserves.
Responsibilities\:
- Own the cloud and IoT backbone of the vehicle’s autonomous system, ensuring it is scalable, cost-efficient, and production ready.
- Design reliable edge-to-cloud data architectures supporting autonomous system development and fleet operations.
- Build data pipelines for Kinesis, S3, Lambda for telemetry ingestion.
- Deploy and manage ML infrastructure\: SageMaker pipelines, model registry, retraining workflows.
- Implement CI/CD and infrastructure as code (Terraform). Enable reliable data flow from vehicle to cloud to training pipeline to OTA deployment.
- Develop fleet-management tools supporting remote diagnostics, telemetry, health monitoring, and fleet analytics.
- Establish data governance, retention, and security policies for connected vehicle systems.
- Support implementation of cybersecurity controls for connected vehicle and OTA infrastructure.
- Ensure ML training and deployment pipelines operate efficiently and at scale.
- Deploy OTA updates securely and reliably to vehicles and monitor system health, logging, and observability.