Senior Software Innovation Engineer M/F

We are currently looking for our future Senior Software Innovation Engineer to join our R&D department, more specifically our Data Science & AI Innovation team. This role is based at the VIC (Verkor Innovation Center) in Grenoble, France.

As such, you sit at the intersection of business, product, and digital platforms. The role is responsible for transforming business-driven platform ideas into technically validated, prototype-backed software solutions that are ready for industrialization by digital/IT teams. The role focuses on early stages of platform design, hands-on prototyping, and technical feasibility validation, ensuring that initiatives entering the digital pipeline are clear, realistic, and production-aware. It ensures digital teams receive well-defined, technically credible inputs to accelerate time-to-value. It further reduces ambiguity, rework and misalignment between business and digital.

Work closely with business and R&D stakeholders to understand use cases, constraints and value drivers

Design high-level platform architecture aligned with enterprise standards

Build working technical prototypes to validate integrations, data flows and deployment models

Package prototypes so they are reproducible and sharable with digital/IT

Document architecture of the prototype, APIs, assumptions, risks and open points

Act as a technical single point of contact from ideation to handover.