Automotive Customer Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Sep 24, 2026. First seen by Alion on Mar 2, 2026.
We are seeing a highly experienced ADAS Customer Engineering Leader to drive technical engagement with Japanese OEMs and Tier-1 partners. This role serves as the primary technical bridge between customers in Japan and our global ADAS / IVI SOC and Software engineering teams.
The Ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Automotive ADAS and IVI systems, strong understanding of ADAS SoC architecture and fluency in Japanese and English. This role requires strong system level thinking, executive communication skills, and hands on technical depth across the end-to-end ADAS software stack.
Key Responsibilities
- Customer Technical Leadership (Japan OEM Focus)
o Serve as primary technical interface for Japanese OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers.
o Lead deep technical discussions covering:
ADAS system architecture
SoC capabilities and performance trade-offs
Software stack integration (AUTOSAR, RTOS, Linux/QNX, middleware)
AI model deployment and optimization
- End to End ADAS System Expertise
o Strong understanding of
Sensor architectures (Camera, Radar, LiDAR, Ultrasonic)
Sensor Fusion frameworks
Perception pipelines (CV/AI/DNN acceleration)
Functional Safety (ISO 26262, ASIL D)
Automotive Cybersecurity architectures
Hypervisors and mixed-criticality systems
- ADAS SoC & Compute Landscape knowledge
o Deep understanding of ADAS SoC architecture:
CPU clusters (ARM Cortex-A/R)
GPU / NPU / DSP accelerators
Memory hierarchy & bandwidth constraints
Functional Safety Island
ISP and Vision pipelines
o Ability to articulate differentiation versus competitors such as:
NVDIA
Qualcomm
Mobileye
Renesas Electronics
- Cross-Functional Alignment & Executive Communication
o Communicate Japanese customer feedback and strategic insights to :
Engineering leadership
Product management
Executive team
o Support executive level reviews and customer QBRs.
o Align roadmap discussions between HQ and Japan customers.
- Pre-Sales & Post Sales Technical Support
o Support system bring-up and integration issues.
o Coordinate debugging across HW, BSP, middleware, and AI layers.
o Provide escalation support for critical customer issues.
o Enable customer engineering team through documentation and training.