Consumer Home and Chipset Project Engineer Software Engineering Posted

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. We are seeking a results-driven Principal Engineer to lead our Home and Life, Video Collaboration Segments in the Consumer Processor Engineering division. In this pivotal leadership role, you will drive the strategic vision, development, and execution for the Retail, Home & Life and Video Collaboration segments.

You will serve as a key bridge between technical execution teams and global customers, collaborating closely with Product Management to translate market needs into comprehensive, end-to-end technology solutions. This is an opportunity to shape the future of consumer processor applications in a high-growth IoT landscape. You operate with minimal direction, solve ambiguous and cross domain problems, and influence technical decisions across multiple product generations.

This role is not focused on people management, but on technical leadership at scale owning end-to-end architecture, setting engineering standards, and unblocking complex system level challenges across hardware, software, and product teams.  Scope & Impact At the Principal level, you are expected to:
* ** Strategic Roadmap & Execution:
** Define and execute a robust strategic roadmap for the Home and Life, Video Collaboration segment, ensuring alignment with company-wide IoT objectives and product group requirements. Drive cross team technical alignment and influence roadmap decisions.
* ** Customer & Product Synergy:
** Partner directly with customers and product management to identify segment-specific needs; translate these into technical requirements and map them to appropriate SoC (System-on-Chip) and software platforms.
* ** Technical Oversight:
** Deep-dive into technical requirements across various technology areas, ensuring that software features are optimized for specific sub-segments and hardware configurations. Own system level architecture for major subsystems Camera, Display, Audio, Video, Security, Boot, Storage and Peripherals.
* ** Ownership:
** Drives the resolution of all engineering issues within the segment, whether within a specific subsystem, or across subsystems, functions, and chipset components. Drives complete verification for component and chipset KPIs (performance, power, and quality); directs teams conducting hardware, software, or system-level testing, verification, and validation based on project plans and specifications.
* ** Cross-Functional Leadership:
** Develop comprehensive execution plans in collaboration with program management and engineering teams, overseeing the full development lifecycle to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of customer devices in the market.
* ** Talent & Culture Excellence:
** Foster a culture of engineering excellence, challenging the status quo, continuous improvement, innovation, and calculated risk-taking.  
** Level of Responsibility:
*** Be the go-to expert for one or more deep technical areas while maintaining strong system breadth.
* Plan and execute state-of-the-art chipsets through all phases from concept to commercialization across all engineering teams. Outlines schedules, costs, requirements, and KPIs (e.g., power, performance, reliability) from concept to commercialization.
* Writes detailed technical documentation and feature descriptions for projects; reviews technical documentation.
* Drives critical decision-making and delivers high impact on program, product, or project success.
* Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey highly complex and/or detailed information. May require strong negotiation and influence with large groups…