3 days ago
Base Salary
$169k - $253k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as the senior program and technical interface for Detroit-area OEM and Tier-1 ADAS customers.
- Lead customer deployment of Qualcomm ADAS compute platforms from architecture and evaluation through integration, validation, SOP, and post-production support.
- Drive architecture, program status, technical risk, issue-resolution, and production-readiness reviews with customers and internal engineering teams.
- Coordinate cross-functional and geographically distributed teams across silicon, hardware, platform software, operating systems, safety, security, camera, AI, and validation.
- Lead technical escalation, recovery, mitigation, and closure efforts for complex customer and production-program issues.
- Provide system-level leadership across compute architectures, operating systems, hypervisors, safety, security, sensor processing, vehicle interfaces, performance, diagnostics, power, and thermal management.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 8+ years of related experience; or a master's degree plus 7+ years; or a PhD plus 6+ years.
- 20+ years of professional experience in automotive embedded systems, semiconductor platforms, ADAS, autonomous driving, automotive electronics, or closely related fields.
- 5+ years of customer engineering leadership, customer/OEM technical program management, ADAS platform engineering leadership, or technical leadership of a production ADAS program.
- 4+ years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python and 4+ years of debugging experience.
- Experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon automotive platforms or competing automotive compute platforms, including ADAS or domain-controller SoCs.
- Strong technical depth in areas such as QNX, AUTOSAR, ISO 26262, camera and image-processing pipelines, AI/ML accelerators, sensor interfaces, hypervisors, BSPs, device drivers, performance optimization, vehicle networks, and diagnostics.
- Direct experience with a major automotive OEM or Tier-1 on an L2, L2+, or L3 ADAS production program.
- Experience taking complex automotive products from architecture and development through production launch/SOP, including SIL/HIL, simulation/ReSim, vehicle validation, and release qualification.
- Experience with centralized compute, ADAS domain controllers, automotive E/E architectures, camera/radar-based ADAS, vehicle integration, ASPICE, safety cases, ASIL programs, and production-readiness processes.
- Strong technical problem-solving, customer escalation, written communication, verbal communication, and executive-audience communication skills.
- Prior experience working directly with North American automotive OEM engineering organizations is preferred.
- A master's degree or equivalent advanced technical experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting work, home, and personal well-being.
- The posted base pay range is $168,500.00-$252,700.00 for the Detroit-area location.
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.