LinkLabs works inside integration heavy automotive programmes: Android Automotive OS platforms, multi display cockpits, system level applications, connectivity stacks, and the operating system update path that keeps a vehicle current long after start of production. The work sits where software, hardware constraints, and several organisations meet, which is exactly where most programme schedule is lost.
Getting a build to boot, behave, and stay stable on real target hardware, then keeping it that way as the platform moves underneath the programme.
Making components from several suppliers behave as one cockpit, with clear contracts at every boundary instead of assumptions.
System and privileged applications that live inside platform rules rather than fighting them.
Version upgrades, security patch currency, and update campaigns that survive real vehicles and real users.
Integration failures rarely look like code defects. They look like an unowned interface, a display that was specified by one team and rendered by another, or a permission model that nobody re-read after a platform bump. This is the work we are usually brought in for.
Modern cockpits are several independent surfaces with different resolutions, densities, aspect ratios, input capabilities, and owners. A feature that looks correct on the centre console can be unreadable on a pillar to pillar display and unreachable on a screen with no touch at all.
Features that need vehicle state, privileged placement, or platform identity cannot be built as ordinary applications. We work at the level where signature permissions, platform identity, and service contracts are involved, and where getting it wrong shows up as an SELinux denial rather than a compile error.
Often our deliverable is not an application but a component that a Tier-1 hosts inside their own build: a library, an interface contract, and a specification precise enough that the receiving team can integrate without a support thread per question.
Media discovery and casting, device pairing, mirroring, and phone projection behaviour, including the awkward cases: network changes mid session, interface selection on multi homed devices, and stale advertised endpoints.
We build original in-vehicle titles driven by the vehicle steering wheel and pedals, parked-only by design. A fast way to show what a software defined cockpit feels like rather than describe it.
Browser engines, media frameworks, mapping, and voice stacks brought into a vehicle build, with attention to memory footprint, lifecycle, and behaviour on a display and input model they were never designed for.
A vehicle programme does not end at start of production. It inherits a decade of operating system upgrades, security patch obligations, and update campaigns that have to run on hardware already in customer hands. We treat this as its own engineering discipline, not as maintenance.
Moving a cockpit across major platform versions is rarely about new features. It is about what quietly changed underneath: permission behaviour, background execution rules, security policy, deprecated interfaces, and vendor layer expectations. We plan and execute those migrations with the breakage surfaced early rather than discovered during integration.
An update that works on a bench and fails in a car park is a product incident, not a bug. We work on the conditions that decide whether an update actually lands: power state, connectivity, storage, interruption, and recovery.
Monthly platform security bulletins do not stop arriving because a programme has frozen. We support patch assessment, backporting into a stabilised branch, and evidence that the shipped build is current.
Separating application delivery from full system images, so a fix to one cockpit feature does not require a platform campaign. This includes system application update paths and modular platform components.
Regression scope selection, field log triage after a campaign wave, and fast root cause on the reports that arrive from vehicles rather than from a test rig. Our own PitLane tooling is used here.
In integration heavy programmes, the expensive problem is not writing the fix. It is establishing, across several suppliers, what failed and who owns it. We built PitLane because that argument was consuming weeks of engineering time on real programmes, and because the evidence needed to end it was already sitting in the log capture.
Ranked issues, a causal narrative across subsystems, and the exact log lines behind every claim. Captures are parsed locally, so vehicle logs never leave the engineer machine.
PitLane, built and operated by LinkLabs.The language here is deliberately concrete. These are the engagement shapes OEM, Tier-1, and platform stakeholders recognise.
| Service line | Description | Delivery contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Automotive systems assistance | Support for systems integrators and platform teams coordinating software, hardware dependencies, and feature milestones. | Improves alignment across execution streams and reduces integration friction. |
| Multi display HMI integration | Layout, density, focus, and theme behaviour across centre console, passenger, rear, and wide displays, including non touch surfaces. | Removes late surprises where a feature is correct on one screen and unusable on another. |
| Application engineering | Development support for system, privileged, and user facing applications operating within automotive platform constraints. | Accelerates build quality and improves deployment readiness. |
| OS version migration | Platform upgrade impact analysis, remediation of changed behaviour, and a staged migration plan with exit criteria. | Converts an open ended upgrade risk into a scheduled, reviewable workstream. |
| Update and OTA engineering | Dual slot update flows, rollback, delta strategy, precondition gating, staged rollout, and abort criteria. | Raises campaign success rate and reduces field incident exposure. |
| Testing and validation | Test planning, issue verification, regression review, and release confidence strengthening. | Supports delivery control, defect reduction, and milestone confidence. |
We engage as an execution partner inside integration heavy automotive programmes, across platform bring up, cockpit integration, system application delivery, operating system upgrades, and update campaigns.
