Automotive Infotainment and ADAS Hardware Applications Engineer

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

Join a high-impact Customer Engineering team enabling next-generation Automotive IVI/ADAS processor platforms for one of the world’s leading semiconductor innovators. As a Customer Engineering Lead, you will serve as a technical interface between strategic customers—including OEMs and Tier1s—and internal product teams, helping to launch and sustain industry-leading Automotive SoCs.
This role is ideal for a lightly seasoned technical expert and communicator who thrives in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. You will drive customer adoption from concept to commercialization and mass production, representing the voice of the customer internally while delivering best-in-class technical support externally. In this role, you’ll work closely with internal design, systems, and validation teams, and with external partners across thermal, power, SI/PI, and firmware disciplines. You'll also become deeply familiar with reference platforms and platform implementation guides to ensure customer system designs meet the highest performance and reliability standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.
• PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Automotive platform design, bring-up, or customer-facing technical roles
• Deep understanding of high-speed board design principles including: DDR5, PCIe Gen6/Gen7, CXL, SerDes, and Ethernet o PDN design, SI/PI simulation and debug, EMI/EMC mitigation
• Experience with system bring-up and debug tools: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills
• Demonstrated ability to influence internal teams and manage customer engagements with high autonomy

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware support for strategic customers adopting Qualcomm’s Automotive SoCs, including OEMs and Tier1s
• Act as the primary technical interface for customer hardware teams during design, bring-up, validation, and deployment phases
• Perform detailed reviews of customer schematics, PCB layouts, thermal designs, power delivery networks, and signal integrity plans
• Support SoC interface validation and debug across DDR, PCIe Gen6/Gen7, CXL, Ethernet, and other high-speed interfaces
• Collaborate closely with internal engineering, software, validation, and product teams to address technical challenges and customer feedback
• Identify gaps in customer and internal design expectations and propose practical solutions or mitigations
• Familiarize with the reference platforms and platform implementation guides developed by internal teams to effectively support customer development
• Deliver high-quality technical documentation, training, and onboarding material for customer enablement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level