2 days ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and customer engineering support for automotive customers adopting Qualcomm Snapdragon Cockpit platforms.
- Analyze customer requirements, identify technical gaps and risks, define system architectures, and drive optimal technical solutions.
- Support automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers through product development, integration, validation, and commercialization.
- Develop, debug, and troubleshoot embedded software and complex SoC-based systems across software, hardware, and system domains.
- Lead customer, product management, and engineering discussions and drive complex technical issues to resolution.
- Advocate customer needs internally and communicate Qualcomm technologies, capabilities, and roadmaps to customers.
- Coordinate cross-functional technical initiatives and build trusted relationships with Japanese automotive customers and global engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field with 8+ years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master's degree with 7+ years or a PhD with 6+ years.
- At least 4 years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python and at least 4 years of experience with debugging techniques.
- Strong hands-on C programming experience and expertise in embedded software design, low-level debugging, embedded systems, SoC architecture, and system integration.
- Experience with Android Automotive OS, Android, Linux, QNX, RTOS, or equivalent operating environments.
- Knowledge of kernel architecture, memory management, multi-core processing, multithreading, virtualization, security, power management, crash debugging, and system performance optimization.
- Experience in customer-facing technical roles involving requirements analysis, system architecture, technical negotiations, or executive-level engagements.
- Native or business-fluent Japanese and English proficiency.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with Snapdragon Cockpit, Snapdragon Ride, Automotive Connectivity, automotive OEMs or Tier-1 suppliers, virtualization, hypervisors, functional safety, cybersecurity, AI/ML, vehicle software architectures, and senior FAE or solutions architecture leadership.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.