ADAS Platform Customer Engineering Lead
QualcommJob Title
ADAS Platform Customer Engineering Lead
Role Summary
Senior technical and customer-facing lead responsible for driving adoption, integration, validation, and production deployment of Qualcomm ADAS compute platforms for automotive OEMs and Tier‑1 suppliers in the Detroit area.
The role spans system-level architecture, cross-functional program execution, and direct customer engagement from evaluation through SOP and post-production support.
Experience Level
Senior. The role expects extensive industry experience: the posting specifies 20+ years of automotive embedded systems experience and at least 5+ years in customer program management, customer engineering, or senior technical leadership supporting production ADAS programs.
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership to customers and coordinate internal engineering to deliver production-ready ADAS compute platforms.
- Serve as senior technical/program interface for Detroit OEMs and Tier‑1 customers; lead executive and technical reviews.
- Develop trusted relationships with customer engineering, program managers, architects and platform teams.
- Lead platform deployment from architecture evaluation through integration, validation, SOP and post‑production support.
- Drive cross‑functional issue resolution across silicon, hardware, platform software, OS, safety, security, camera and AI teams.
- Define technical priorities, owners, dependencies and closure criteria for critical customer issues and escalations.
- Ensure platform maturity and production readiness using SIL/HIL, simulation/ReSim, bench and vehicle testing.
- Coordinate geographically distributed engineering teams and communicate program status and technical risks to executives.
Requirements
Key technical and leadership requirements. Degree requirements are summarized under Education Requirements below.
- 20+ years professional experience in automotive embedded systems, semiconductor platforms, ADAS or related fields.
- 5+ years in customer engineering leadership, OEM technical program management, or ADAS platform engineering leadership supporting production programs.
- Hands‑on experience with SoC-based embedded compute platforms and system‑level architecture across hardware, BSP/platform software, middleware and perception workloads.
- Experience across QNX and/or other automotive operating systems, hypervisors, multi‑OS environments, and platform security.
- Technical depth in camera/image pipelines, AI/ML acceleration, sensor interfaces, vehicle networks, system performance and optimization.
- Experience driving program recovery and managing complex customer escalations; strong executive communication skills.
- At least 4+ years experience with programming languages (C/C++, Java, Python, etc.) and 4+ years with debugging techniques.
- Nice to have: direct experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon automotive platforms or competing SoCs; L2/L2+/L3 ADAS production programs; AUTOSAR; ISO 26262 and ASIL programs; ASPICE; SIL/HIL and vehicle validation methodologies.
Education Requirements
Minimum qualifications allow multiple education/experience combinations: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 8+ years of relevant experience; OR Master's degree in those fields plus 7+ years; OR PhD in those fields plus 6+ years. The posting also references equivalent related work experience and notes a Master's or equivalent advanced technical experience as preferred.
About the Company
Company: Qualcomm
Headquarters: San Diego, California, United States
Qualcomm is a global leader in semiconductor and telecommunications equipment, specializing in mobile technologies and innovations. Known for its Adreno GPUs, the company provides solutions enabling advancements in mobile gaming, AI, VR/AR, and autonomous driving. Qualcomm's cutting-edge technology and commitment to high-performance, power-efficient designs drive the evolution of mobile graphics and connectivity worldwide.
