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You will work closely with automotive OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and Qualcomm engineering teams worldwide to understand customer requirements, define system architectures, resolve technical challenges, and enable successful product development.\nThe ideal candidate will be able to translate customer requirements into technical solutions, influence system-level design decisions, and provide end-to-end support throughout the product lifecycle. This individual will serve as a trusted technical advisor to key customers, combining strong technical expertise with a customer-focused mindset.\nSuccess in this role requires the ability to proactively identify customer challenges, influence technical decisions, build strong customer relationships, and drive solutions through collaboration across customer and Qualcomm engineering organizations.\nThe ideal candidate should possess a strong FAE mindset, demonstrating passion for customer success, ownership of complex technical issues, and the ability to bridge customer requirements with Qualcomm technologies, products, and roadmaps.\nSkills / Experience\nDeep understanding of automotive cockpit architectures, including infotainment, digital clusters, IVI systems, multi-display solutions, audio, camera, connectivity, and system integration.\nStrong knowledge of embedded systems, including hardware/software interaction, boot architecture, BSPs, middleware, operating systems, and system-level debugging.\nStrong software development background with hands-on experience in C programming, embedded software design, and low-level system debugging.\nExperience with embedded operating systems such as Android, Linux, QNX, RTOS, or similar platforms.\nStrong understanding of SoC architecture, processor technologies, memory subsystems, power management, thermal management, performance optimization, and overall system design.\nAbility to understand, analyze, and refine customer requirements, identify technical gaps and risks, and drive discussions toward optimal system solutions.\nExperience supporting automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers throughout product development, integration, validation, and commercialization phases.\nStrong customer-facing skills with the ability to build trusted relationships and become a valued technical advisor to customers.\nAbility to proactively identify customer challenges, understand both business and technical requirements, and drive solutions across cross-functional teams.\nExperience advocating customer needs internally while effectively communicating Qualcomm technologies, capabilities, and product roadmaps to customers.\nProven ability to influence stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and drive complex technical issues to resolution.\nStrong problem-solving, root cause analysis, and debugging skills across software, hardware, and system domains.\nAbility to lead technical discussions involving customers, product management, and engineering teams across multiple regions.\nStrong project coordination, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.\nSelf-motivated, positive, and action-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.\nDemonstrated passion for customer success and a willingness to go above and beyond to help customers achieve their goals.\nExcellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.\n8+ years of experience in embedded software, system architecture, automotive engineering, customer engineering, field applications engineering (FAE), or related technical roles.\nStrong programming skills in C, with hands-on experience developing, debugging, and troubleshooting embedded software.\nExperience designing, integrating, debugging, or architecting complex embedded systems based on modern SoCs.\nStrong understanding of automotive software platforms such as Android Automotive OS, Linux, QNX, or equivalent operating environments.\nKnowledge of embedded operating system concepts, including kernel architecture, memory management, multi-core processing, multi-threading, virtualization, security, power management, and crash debugging.\nExperience with system performance profiling, analysis, and optimization techniques.\nExperience in customer-facing technical roles involving requirements analysis, system architecture discussions, technical negotiations, or executive-level customer engagements.\nExcellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies.\nJapanese language proficiency (native or business fluent) to support close collaboration with Japanese automotive customers.\nEnglish language proficiency to communicate effectively with global engineering teams across the U.S., APAC, India, and other regions.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Snapdragon Cockpit, Snapdragon Ride, Automotive Connectivity, or similar automotive computing platforms.\nExperience working directly with automotive OEMs, Tier-1 suppliers, and other automotive ecosystem partners.\nKnowledge of virtualization technologies, hypervisors, functional safety, cybersecurity, AI/ML, or vehicle software architectures.\nExperience leading cross-functional technical initiatives in a global engineering environment.\nProven ability to influence customer architecture decisions and drive successful technology adoption.\nExperience serving as a senior FAE, Customer Engineer, Solutions Architect, Technical Account Manager, or similar customer-facing technical leadership role.\nDemonstrated track record of building long-term customer relationships and driving customer success through technical leadership and execution.\nKey Success Profile\nThe successful candidate is not only a strong technologist but also a customer advocate. They are energized by solving challenging customer problems, comfortable engaging with senior customer architects and engineering leaders, and capable of bringing together multiple Qualcomm teams to achieve customer success.\nThey consistently demonstrate technical excellence, customer focus, ownership, collaboration, and a positive \"can-do\" attitude when facing complex technical and business challenges.\nMinimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.OR\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.\nOR\nPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.\n4+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.\n• 4+ years of experience with debugging techniques.\nApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail  or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).\nQualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.\nTo all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. 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