ADAS Platform Customer Engineering Lead, Detroit

Key Responsibilities 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 Leadership - Coordinate large, geographically distributed engineering organizations supporting customer programs. - Work closely with product management, systems engineering, SoC development, software, safety, security, AI, camera and validation organizations. - Provide clear executive-level communication of program status, technical risks, trade-offs and required decisions. Minimum Qualifications: • 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 Master'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. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related fie