ADAS Platform Customer Engineering Lead, Detroit

Originally posted 2 November 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role provides technical and customer leadership for automotive ADAS engagements with OEMs and Tier-1 partners in the Detroit area. You will drive adoption, integration, validation, and production deployment of Qualcomm ADAS compute platforms across hardware, software, safety, security, camera, and AI domains.

What you'll do

• Serve as the senior program and technical interface for key Detroit-area OEM and Tier-1 ADAS customers.
• Guide customer deployment of ADAS compute platforms across heterogeneous architectures, QNX or automotive operating systems, hypervisors, and multi-OS environments.
• Provide system-level technical leadership across functional safety, platform security, camera and sensor processing, AI/ML acceleration, and vehicle networks.
• Lead customer engagements across the entire lifecycle, from RFI/RFQ and architecture definition through integration, validation, and production launch.
• Drive cross-functional issue resolution spanning silicon, hardware, BSP and platform software, operating systems, safety, camera, and application teams.
• Establish platform maturity and production readiness using validation methodologies including SIL, HIL, simulation/ReSim, bench, and vehicle testing.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field with 8+ years of software applications engineering or software development experience (or Master's degree with 7+ years, or PhD with 6+ years).
• 4+ years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
• 4+ years of experience with debugging techniques.
• Demonstrated system-level background spanning embedded automotive compute architectures, hardware/software interactions, and system performance.

Nice to have

• 20 years of professional experience in automotive embedded systems, semiconductor platforms, ADAS, autonomous driving, or automotive electronics.
• 5+ years in customer engineering leadership, OEM technical program management, or technical leadership of an OEM or Tier-1 production ADAS program.
• Technical depth in QNX, AUTOSAR, functional safety and ISO 26262, camera and image-processing pipelines, AI/ML accelerators, and hypervisors.
• Direct experience supporting an L2/L2+/L3 ADAS production program through SOP with a major automotive OEM or Tier-1.
• Hands-on experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon automotive platforms, Snapdragon Ride, Snapdragon Digital Chassis, or competing ADAS/domain-controller SoCs.
• Experience with ASPICE, V-model development, safety case development, ASIL programs, SIL/HIL, and ReSim validation methodologies.

Skills: ADAS, QNX, ISO 26262, AUTOSAR, Snapdragon

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