1 month ago
Shanghai, ChinaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop the robotics software ecosystem landscape and identify strategic gaps and opportunities across OS distributions, ROS2, middleware/DDS, simulation, tooling, OTA, and safety frameworks.
- Engage robot OEMs, ISVs, systems integrators, and open-source communities to influence architecture choices and adoption of Qualcomm’s robotics software stack.
- Shape upstream and open-source strategy, including ROS2 packages, documentation, and distribution.
- Serve as a senior technical interface for strategic robotics customers in China and capture architecture decisions and pain points across the software stack.
- Translate customer and partner insights into architecture briefs, reference blueprints, prioritized capability requests, and decision memos.
- Influence Robotics SDK, product, and engineering roadmaps with a solution-first perspective.
- Lead cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Product, Program, and BD/CE on solution architecture and ecosystem priorities.
- Define success criteria and measurable outcomes for ecosystem and architecture initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 8+ years of Software Engineering or related experience; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 7+ years or a PhD plus 6+ years.
- At least 4 years of work 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 developer experience principles, including SDK packaging, documentation, samples, tooling, and ecosystem adoption.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for architecture briefs, executive presentations, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
- Preferred: hands-on simulation and performance/power profiling experience for robotics software stacks.
- Preferred: experience with open-source contributions or upstream engagement in robotics communities.
- Preferred: familiarity with hardware acceleration enablement and heterogeneous CPU/GPU/NPU/DSP 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.