Automotive SoC Hardware Applications Lead (ADAS/IVI)

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

Job summary

Qualcomm Canada ULC is seeking a Customer Engineering Lead to join a high-impact team supporting automotive IVI/ADAS SoCs. You will act as the primary technical interface between OEMs/Tier1s and internal product teams, guiding design, bring-up, validation, and deployment to mass production.

You will collaborate with design, systems, and validation groups and with external partners across thermal, power, SI/PI, and firmware disciplines to ensure best-in-class performance and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 4+ years hardware applications engineering or hardware design experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 3+ years hardware applications engineering or hardware design experience.
• PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 2+ years hardware applications engineering or hardware design experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead hardware support for strategic customers adopting Qualcomm’s Automotive SoCs, including OEMs and Tier1s.
• Act 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 closely 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 the reference platforms and platform implementation guides developed by internal teams to effectively support customer development.
• Deliver high-quality technical documentation, training, and onboarding material for customer enablement.

Skills

Automotive platform design

High-speed board design

DDR5 & PCIe Gen6/Gen7

System bring-up & debug

Communication & leadership

Education

Bachelors in Electrical/Electronics or Computer Engineering

Masters in Electrical/Electronics or Computer Engineering

PhD in Electrical/Electronics or Computer Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

SI/PI simulation tools

Job description

Qualcomm Canada ULC is seeking a Customer Engineering Lead to join a high-impact team supporting automotive IVI/ADAS SoCs. You will act as the primary technical interface between OEMs/Tier1s and internal product teams, guiding design, bring-up, validation, and deployment to mass production.

You will collaborate with design, systems, and validation groups and with external partners across thermal, power, SI/PI, and firmware disciplines to ensure best-in-class performance and reliability.