Job Summary

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Staff Engineer (15+ years) to lead strategic automotive programs and serve as a technical authority for next-generation software-defined vehicle platforms.

This role requires a rare combination of deep platform architecture expertise, customer engagement, system-level problem solving, and cross-functional technical leadership. The candidate will work directly with global OEMs, Tier-1 partners, product teams, and engineering organizations to define architecture, drive platform adoption, and resolve the most complex hardware and software challenges.

The ideal candidate is a recognized technical leader who can seamlessly operate from executive-level technical discussions down to kernel, driver, and silicon-level debugging.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Program Leadership

- Serve as technical lead for strategic automotive OEM and Tier-1 programs.
- Drive execution of critical customer initiatives, platform readiness, and release milestones.
- Partner with customer engineering, product management, systems, and development teams to ensure successful program execution.
- Lead technical reviews, risk assessments, escalation management, and executive updates.

Platform Architecture Design Leadership

- Drive end-to-end software and platform architecture discussions across automotive products.
- Review and influence designs spanning:
- Android Automotive (AAOS)
- Linux BSP Kernel
- QNX Neutrino
- Hypervisor Virtualization
- Middleware and Platform Services
- Security and Safety Frameworks
- Provide architectural guidance to customers and internal teams for scalable and production-ready solutions.
- Influence platform evolution and long-term technology strategy.

Deep System Debug Root Cause Analysis

- Lead investigations of complex cross-functional issues involving hardware, firmware, kernel,



middleware, and applications.
- Drive root cause analysis of critical customer escalations and production blockers.
- Analyze and resolve:
- Boot and startup issues
- Memory management problems
- Performance bottlenecks
- System stability issues
- Virtualization challenges
- Storage and file system problems
- Security and access violations
- Work closely with silicon, systems, kernel, and software teams to deliver robust resolutions.

Customer Technical Engagement

- Act as trusted technical advisor to OEM and Tier-1 customers.
- Lead architecture reviews, customer workshops, and technical deep dives.
- Translate customer requirements into platform strategies and engineering priorities.
- Build strong relationships across customer, product, and engineering organizations.

Technical Leadership

- Provide domain leadership across automotive software platforms.
- Mentor engineers and technical leads across multiple technology areas.
- Drive engineering excellence, debugging methodologies, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Champion best practices in architecture, design reviews, and system analysis.

Preferred Technical Expertise

Operating Systems

- Android Automotive OS (AAOS)
- Linux Kernel BSP
- QNX Neutrino OS
- Hypervisor Virtualization Technologies
- Embedded Platform Architecture
- ARMv8 / ARMv9 Architecture
- Scheduler, Memory Management, MMU
- Iommu / SMMU
- Interrupt and Timer Architecture
- DMA and Shared Memory Frameworks




- Boot Chain and System Initialization
- Multi-core Processing

System Software

- Kernel Development and Debugging
- Device Drivers
- Middleware Architectures
- Platform Frameworks
- System Performance Optimization
- Debugging Analysis
- Trace32
- GDB
- Crash Dump Analysis
- Performance Profiling
- System Tracing and Diagnostics
- Cross-layer Hardware/Software Debugging

Automotive Domain

- Software Defined Vehicles (SDV)
- IVI / Cockpit Platforms
- ADAS Platforms
- Functional Safety
- Automotive Cyber Security
- Platform Integration and Validation

Candidate Profile

- B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science, Electronics, or related field.
- 15+ years of experience in embedded, automotive, and platform software development.
- Solid experience working with OEMs, Tier-1 customers, and cross-functional engineering organizations.
- Proven track record in platform architecture, system integration, and complex issue resolution.
- Exceptional communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ 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 5+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
- 3+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
- 3+ years of experience with debugging techniques.

📌 Engineer, Senior Staff (Bengaluru)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Bengaluru