Finland Times

EB's automotive business segment -- which now employs more than 1,110 people in Germany, France, Austria, Romania, China, the United States and China -- has planned the site to recruit more software engineers focusing on the development of embedded automotive software.

With the introduction of the new Oulu site, Elektrobit can further grow its software engineering capacity for current and future needs. The site will be located in Teknologiakylä Oulu, from where the company’s wireless business segment operates.

"Software and electronics in cars are major innovation drivers in the automotive industry, where driver assistance as well as connected services and integration of consumer and mobile technologies with in-car infotainment and connected services have become key differentiators in the market.

"Oulu is the ideal location for us with a highly skilled workforce that is important for our development activities as a software company”, said Alexander Kocher, president of the automotive business segment at Elektrobit.

”The new automotive software development site in Oulu is a great opportunity both for Elektrobit and engineers in the region. We are confident that the market for automotive software, which is growing, can benefit from our long experience in the wireless connectivity”, said Hannu Huttunen, president of the wireless business segment.

Elektrobit Automotive, with its automotive industry experience of 25 years, offers flexible, innovative solutions for connected car infrastructure, human machine interfaces technologies, navigation, driver assistance, ECU, and software engineering services.

It has experiences of working with car makers such as BMW, Daimler, Ford, GM, Volkswagen Group and Volvo which has given the company an insight into the automotive industry development, keeping it on top of new innovations and technology incorporation.

Elektrobit Automotive thinks that any organisation investing in EB Automotive products would stay on the cutting edge as software developers, project managers and marketers at EB know automotive software from the inside out.