Ota Validation Engineer

Position: OTA VALIDATION ENGINEER

Seeking an Automotive OTA Engineer with experience in end-to-end Over-the-Air (OTA) software updates, connected vehicle architecture, ECU diagnostics, and cloud communication protocols. The ideal candidate should understand how vehicles communicate with backend servers using MQTT and HTTP, manage software deployment, maintain ECU inventory, analyze OTA logs, and support software update validation and troubleshooting.

Key Skills

• End-to-end OTA software update process
• Connected vehicle architecture
• ECU software and hardware version management
• MQTT and HTTP communication protocols
• Vehicle-to-cloud/server communication
• ECU inventory management
• OTA campaign management and update targeting
• Log analysis and backend portal monitoring
• CAN, UDS, DoIP (preferred)
• Automotive Embedded Systems
• Cloud platforms and backend services
• Linux and debugging tools

Interview Topics

• Introduce yourself and explain your automotive experience.
• Explain the end-to-end OTA update process.
• Difference between MQTT and HTTP.
• How vehicles communicate with backend servers.
• ECU inventory and where it is stored.
• How the server identifies ECUs that require updates.
• MQTT and HTTP communication flow.
• Difference between hardware and software versions.
• OTA logs, backend portals, and server-side log storage.