$186,900 - $280,300 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves serving as the Director, Lead Project Engineer (PE) for Autonomous Driving (AD) platform delivery, focusing on the successful delivery of end-to-end AD platform solutions from initial engagement through vehicle production launch.
What you'll do
- Own overall technical strategy, execution, and delivery of large-scale Autonomous Driving customer programs.
- Establish program-level technical objectives, success criteria, execution frameworks, and delivery plans.
- Drive alignment of engineering milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and priorities across all contributing organizations.
- Ensure execution remains aligned with customer commitments, product roadmaps, quality objectives, and business goals.
- Serve as the primary technical decision-maker and escalation point for critical program issues.
- Provide executive leadership visibility into technical health, key dependencies, risks, issue resolution plans, and program readiness.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience, OR Master's degree and 7+ years, OR PhD and 6+ years.
- Experience with Autonomous Driving or ADAS software stacks.
- Strong knowledge of automotive software platforms, middleware, Linux-based systems, and embedded architectures.
- Familiarity with HIL, SIL, simulation, validation, and vehicle testing methodologies.
- Understanding of automotive functional safety, quality management, and release processes.
- Experience working with OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and automotive ecosystem partners.
Nice to have
- Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
- Experience operating at executive levels within global engineering organizations.
Skills: autonomous driving platform, systems engineering, platform enablement, HIL, vehicle deployment
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This role has been open 37 days — slightly above the 36-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
27
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Median days open
36 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (27 roles · 13 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 5 | 27 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 682 | 6481 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 121 d | 36 d (+85 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: autonomous driving platform, systems engineering, platform enablement, HIL, vehicle deployment
Who's hiring in this category
- Mobileye · 6 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 5 open roles · median 122 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 4 open roles · median 41 d
- Infineon Technologies · 2 open roles · median 28 d
- Texas Instruments · 2 open roles · median 142 d
- Analog Devices · 1 open role · median 17 d
How we counted: 27 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Automotive IC) roles from 13 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.