That's true, but only indirectly. Since these companies mainly assemble cars from components designed and built by suppliers, the software engineers are working for suppliers like Bosch. If you talk to the tech people from, e.g., BMW, their roles are managing budgets and projects implemented by external partners.
This is also why they want self driving to be just another standard function that they can buy from a supplier, while letting the suppliers compete away their margins.
This is also why they want self driving to be just another standard function that they can buy from a supplier, while letting the suppliers compete away their margins.