SDV FaultLink – Inter-Vehicle Failure Detection and Vendor Alerting

Context

Ampere Software Technology Tunisia, Renault Group’s subsidiary, develops software, architectures and diagnostics for the Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) platform. The internship contributes to the development of connected and autonomous vehicles.

Objective

Design a vehicle-to-vehicle failure detection and alerting solution that enables offline vehicles to share diagnostic information with remote systems through connected neighboring vehicles.

Scope of work

• Design a distributed failure-sharing framework enabling vehicles to exchange diagnostic information through local wireless communication.
• Implement mechanisms for failure detection, aggregation and propagation between connected and disconnected vehicles.
• Develop a proof of concept demonstrating vendor alerting through neighboring connected vehicles.
• Evaluate communication reliability, security and diagnostic data integrity.

Required skills

• Embedded Linux, Linux Kernel, Android or Automotive Android.
• Wi-Fi drivers, including cfg80211 and mac80211.
• Cuttlefish.

Internship details

• Reference: 27-02.
• Position: 1 engineer intern.
• Duration: 6 months.
• Integration planned for early February 2027.
• Target profile: BAC+5 engineering student specializing in computer science, embedded systems, electronics or telecommunications.