ADAS Platform Customer Engineering Lead, Detroit

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced ADAS Platform Customer Engineering Lead to provide technical and customer leadership for strategic automotive ADAS engagements in the Detroit area.

This is a senior, customer-facing technical leadership position responsible for driving successful adoption, integration, validation, and production deployment of Qualcomm ADAS compute platforms at leading automotive OEMs and Tier-1 partners.

The successful candidate will bring 20+ years of automotive embedded systems experience, including at least 5+ years in customer program management, customer engineering, or a senior technical leadership role supporting a production ADAS program.

The candidate must have strong system-level understanding of modern ADAS compute architectures and be able to operate across hardware, software, safety, security, camera, AI and system-performance domains. The role requires someone equally comfortable engaging an OEM's senior engineering leadership, working directly with system architects, and driving complex technical issues to closure with global engineering teams.

• Customer Technical Leadership
  • Serve as the senior program and technical interface for key Detroit-area OEM and Tier-1 ADAS customers.
  • Build trusted relationships with engineering leaders, program managers, architects and platform teams.
  • Understand customer ADAS roadmaps, E/E architectures, compute requirements and production constraints, and translate them into actionable engagements for Qualcomm engineering teams.
  • Lead executive and technical customer reviews covering architecture, program status, technical risks, issue resolution and production readiness.
  • Act as the technical escalation leader for complex cross-functional customer issues.
• ADAS Platform & System Leadership
  • Lead customer deployment of advanced ADAS compute platforms using Qualcomm chipset and software products from initial architecture and platform evaluation through integration, validation, SOP and post-production support.
  • Provide system-level leadership across:
    • Heterogeneous automotive compute architectures
    • QNX and/or other automotive operating systems
    • Hypervisors and multi-OS environments
    • Functional safety and safety architecture
    • Platform and system security
    • Camera and sensor processing
    • AI/ML and neural-network acceleration
    • Middleware, IPC and inter-processor communication
    • Vehicle interfaces and automotive networks
    • System boot, power and thermal management
    • Memory, bandwidth and compute utilization
    • System performance, latency and optimization
    • Diagnostics, logging, telemetry and fault management
  • Understand interactions among SoC hardware, BSP/platform software, operating systems, middleware, perception workloads and vehicle-level ADAS functionality.
• Program Execution & Production
  • Provide technical leadership across the complete customer lifecycle, from RFI/RFQ and architecture definition through development, integration, validation and production launch.
  • Drive cross-functional issue resolution spanning silicon, hardware, platform software, operating systems, safety, security, camera, AI and application teams.
  • Establish clear technical priorities, dependencies, owners and closure criteria for critical customer issues.
  • Drive platform maturity and production readiness using appropriate validation methodologies including SIL, HIL, simulation/ReSim, bench and vehicle testing.
  • Identify architectural and execution risks early and drive mitigation plans with customer and internal engineering organizations.
  • Lead technical recovery efforts for critical programs and customer escalations where necessary.
• Cross-Functional…