Automotive IVI/ADAS Hardware Applications Lead

Qualcomm; Markham; On-site; CAD 113,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Canada ULC in Markham is seeking a Customer Engineering Lead to drive hardware support for Automotive SoCs, interfacing with OEMs and Tier1s, and collaborating with internal product teams to launch and sustain industry-leading platforms.

You will work with design, systems, and validation teams to enable customer deployments, review schematics, and ensure high-performance, reliable implementations across high-speed interfaces like DDR, PCIe Gen6/Gen7, CXL, and Ethernet.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering with 4+ years hardware apps/design experience.
• Master’s with 3+ years hardware apps/design experience.
• PhD with 2+ years hardware apps/design experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware support for strategic customers adopting Qualcomm Automotive SoCs.
• Serve as the primary technical interface for customer hardware teams during design, bring-up, validation, and deployment phases.
• Perform detailed reviews of customer schematics, PCB layouts, thermal designs, power delivery networks, and signal integrity plans.
• Support SoC interface validation and debug across DDR, PCIe Gen6/Gen7, CXL, Ethernet, and other high-speed interfaces.
• Collaborate with internal engineering, software, validation, and product teams to address technical challenges and customer feedback.
• Identify gaps in customer and internal design expectations and propose practical solutions or mitigations.
• Familiarize with reference platforms and platform implementation guides to support customer development.
• Deliver high-quality technical documentation, training, and onboarding material for customer enablement.

Skills

Customer engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical presentation

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics/Computer Engineering

PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering/Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

Job description

Qualcomm Canada ULC in Markham is seeking a Customer Engineering Lead to drive hardware support for Automotive SoCs, interfacing with OEMs and Tier1s, and collaborating with internal product teams to launch and sustain industry-leading platforms.

You will work with design, systems, and validation teams to enable customer deployments, review schematics, and ensure high-performance, reliable implementations across high-speed interfaces like DDR, PCIe Gen6/Gen7, CXL, and Ethernet.