Unikie and Profilence Advance Software-defined Vehicle Development

Unikie, a global software engineering and innovation company, and Profilence, a specialized software technology company, have partnered to deliver highly specialized advanced software development for the automotive industry. Together, they combine deep automotive engineering expertise, specialized technology, and high-end capabilities to help automotive manufacturers achieve their goals.

As automotive software becomes increasingly complex and specialized, development and quality assurance methods must evolve as well. As a leading embedded software partner, Unikie drives innovation in the development, manufacturing, and logistics of software-defined vehicles and fleets. Strong partnerships play a key role in this work.

Together with Profilence, Unikie supports automotive OEMs with specialized domain expertise. Profilence adds specialized technology to understanding how software ages and reveals a dimension of software quality conventional testing misses: stability and performance over time.

“Traditional testing requires extensive project-specific test-case development, which can be both slow and costly. Profilence complements traditional testing by showing how software stability and performance develop over extended use, uncovering issues that conventional validation misses. As software-defined vehicle architectures become more complex, combining this capability with Unikie’s embedded expertise helps identify and address these issues effectively and has demonstrated clear benefits across several automotive OEM projects,” explains Vesa Kiviranta, CBO, Automotive & Marshalling Solutions at Unikie.

Unikie has already collaborated with Profilence for over four years. It all started in the Volvo Cars and Polestar infotainment ecosystem, where the collaboration delivered value immediately, uncovering and addressing software issues before they could turn into major customer escalations. Since then, the partnership has expanded across multiple automotive programs, spanning passenger cars and heavy-duty vehicles, Europe and the United States, including programs within some of the world's largest automotive groups.

“Profilence is deliberately specialized. We have spent more than 20 years building exceptional depth in one specific capability. Hiring 20 more engineers doesn't give you 20 years of technology, methodology and domain expertise. With Unikie, that capability can become part of a much larger project exactly when it is needed,” concludes Sami Utriainen, CEO and Co-founder at Profilence.

About Unikie
Unikie is a global software engineering and innovation company that specializes in physical AI. The company infuses real-time intelligence and autonomous capabilities into next-generation vehicles, devices, networks, defence systems, and industrial solutions.

Unikie leverages its world-class expertise in secure embedded systems that give their clients a competitive edge and enable them to become digital leaders within their industries. With close to 500 talented software experts, Unikie operates globally in 8 countries.

About Profilence
Profilence is a Finnish software technology company specializing in long-term software quality, stability and performance. Its technology and domain expertise help automotive companies understand how software ages, uncover hard-to-find system-level problems and identify their root causes before they reach customers.