3 months ago
Shanghai, ChinaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop robotics software ecosystem strategy across OS distributions, ROS2, middleware/DDS, simulation, tooling, CI/CD, OTA, and safety frameworks.
- Engage robot OEMs, ISVs, systems integrators, open-source communities, and other ecosystem partners to influence architecture and adoption of Qualcomm’s robotics software stack.
- Serve as a senior technical interface for strategic robotics customers in China and synthesize architecture decisions and pain points into internal briefs, blueprints, capability requests, and decision memos.
- Influence Robotics SDK, product, and engineering roadmaps using customer insights and evaluation of future robotics technologies.
- Lead cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, Program, and BD/CE, including ownership, decision-making, success criteria, and partner enablement milestones.
- Shape upstream and open-source engagement, including ROS2 packages, documentation, and distribution.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 8+ years of software engineering or related experience; or a master’s degree plus 7+ years; or a PhD plus 6+ years.
- At least 4 years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Deep experience in robotics software architecture and systems integration across Linux/Ubuntu, ROS2, middleware/DDS, perception pipelines, and runtime performance.
- Proven customer-facing technical leadership with senior engineers and architects at OEMs and partners.
- Strong understanding of SDK packaging, documentation, samples, tooling, developer experience, and ecosystem adoption.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for architecture briefs, executive presentations, and cross-functional alignment.
- Preferred: experience with robotics simulation and performance or power profiling workflows.
- Preferred: experience with open-source contributions or upstream robotics community engagement.
- Preferred: familiarity with CPU/GPU/NPU/DSP hardware acceleration and heterogeneous compute integration.
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.