2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead Flex Platform integration on Qualcomm reference and OEM customer hardware.
- Provide technical leadership across OEM program phases from concept through maintenance and coordinate cross-functional Qualcomm teams.
- Perform BSP and driver bring-up, low-level boot and runtime debugging, and vehicle communication and diagnostics integration.
- Integrate Digital Cockpit and ADAS software stacks, analyze end-to-end data flows and latency, and tune system performance.
- Execute system characterization, envelope testing, and stress testing for mixed-criticality workloads and future scalability.
- Drive resolution of critical technical issues, integration regressions, and customer escalations.
- Serve as the primary technical counterpart for OEM engineering executives, architects, and program leads.
- Translate customer roadmaps, architecture, safety, security, and regulatory needs into Qualcomm platform requirements and solutions.
- Mentor cross-functional teams and contribute to customer-engagement and ADAS solution best practices.
- Support design reviews, technical workshops, joint debugging, and on-site integration activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, information systems, computer science, or a related field with 6+ years of software engineering or related experience; alternatively, a master's degree with 5+ years or a PhD with 4+ years.
- 15+ years of senior engineering experience in Digital Cockpit, ADAS, or autonomous-driving domains at an OEM, Tier 1, semiconductor company, or relevant technology supplier.
- At least 3 years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Experience working directly with major global OEMs on large-scale mixed-criticality Digital Cockpit or ADAS programs.
- Strong experience with BSP integration, hardware bring-up, performance analysis, KPI management, compute-platform architecture, embedded software stacks, and ADAS sensor integration.
- Experience with SoC, GPU/DSP, accelerators, hypervisors or virtual machines, QNX/Linux/Android, middleware, frameworks, toolchains, and AUTOSAR Classic/Adaptive.
- Understanding of vehicle interface processors, CAN integration, automotive safety and security, ISO 26262, ASPICE, and cybersecurity standards.
- Experience with ADAS/AD functions, perception, sensor fusion, planning, and control is desirable.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority in a complex matrix organization.
- Excellent English communication and presentation skills; German is strongly preferred.
- Strong problem-solving, data-driven decision-making, customer leadership, mentoring, and executive-engagement skills.
- Willingness to travel regularly to customers and Qualcomm sites domestically and internationally.
- Experience at Qualcomm, a major semiconductor vendor, or a Tier 1 integrating high-performance automotive SoCs is preferred.
Benefits
- Regular domestic and international travel to customer and Qualcomm sites is expected.
- Qualcomm provides reasonable accommodations during the application and hiring process for individuals with disabilities.
- Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer.
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.