The automotive industry is going through one of its biggest technical transitions.
Vehicles increasingly rely on software, sensors, high-performance computing, connectivity, and advanced electrical architectures. This has expanded the role of Automotive engineering companies beyond traditional mechanical engineering.
Quest Global works across automotive engineering areas including embedded software, infotainment, ADAS, electrical and electronic architectures, vehicle systems, testing, and validation.
For software engineers, the rise of software-defined vehicles is particularly significant.
Automotive software has to operate under very different constraints from web applications. Reliability, real-time processing, functional safety, hardware integration, and validation all become critical.
The architecture itself is also changing. Instead of having dozens of isolated electronic control units, manufacturers are moving toward more centralized computing and increasingly sophisticated vehicle networks.
This means automotive engineering teams need people who understand both software and physical systems.
Developers entering automotive engineering may therefore benefit from learning embedded C/C++, AUTOSAR, real-time operating systems, CAN, automotive Ethernet, cybersecurity, and functional safety concepts.
The vehicle is becoming a software platform, but making that platform reliable requires deep systems engineering.
