Automotive captives and software-defined vehicles

Vehicles are software platforms now. India captives increasingly own embedded software, tooling, validation support, and related digital products for global OEMs and suppliers.

What to staff for

• Embedded and systems engineers who have shipped automotive-grade work
• Software quality and functional safety awareness appropriate to your scope
• Partnership with European/US engineering leadership on interfaces
• Environments that are not permanent bottlenecks

30 / 60 / 90

• 30: Module ownership thesis (what India owns in the vehicle software map).
• 60: Senior hiring slate and quality gates.
• 90: First owned increment with defect and delivery evidence.

Takeaway

SDV captives are engineering organizations.

Treat them like that, not like generic IT overflow.