Lead Embedded Platform Architect - Automotive (QNX/Linux)

Global Connect Technologies; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Connect Technologies in Portland, OR is seeking a Principal Embedded Platform Architect to serve as the single onsite technical contact between the customer and offshore engineering teams.

The role requires deep expertise in QNX, Embedded Linux, Android/Android Automotive, Qualcomm platforms, and embedded architecture, with responsibility to drive architecture decisions, coordinate offshore specialists, review deliverables, and ensure commitments are delivered on time.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of embedded software development and platform architecture experience.
• Strong hands-on experience in C and C++.
• Experience with QNX, Embedded Linux, and Android.
• Android platform, middleware, framework, native services, HAL, NDK, JNI, AIDL, APEX, and Project Treble.
• Linux and QNX internals, including processes, threads, IPC, scheduling, memory, storage, networking, and system services.
• Experience with embedded platform services, middleware, device interfaces, hardware abstraction, and cross-platform libraries.
• Experience with Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms, preferably automotive or similarly complex embedded platforms.
• Understanding of QNX Hypervisor, virtualization, and multi-OS platform architectures.
• Experience in system performance analysis, benchmarking, profiling, instrumentation, and optimization.
• Understanding of embedded-device observability, telemetry, health monitoring, diagnostics, logging, and remote debugging.
• Working knowledge of embedded platform security, secure boot, keys, certificates, signing, TPM/TEE, secure updates, and network security.
• Understanding of on-device AI architecture, model deployment, edge-AI constraints, and Qualcomm AI capabilities.
• Experience in Linux-to-Android service migration and platform modernization.
• Strong troubleshooting capability across application, middleware, operating system, driver, hardware, and network layers.
• Proven experience leading customer-facing architecture discussions and distributed engineering teams.
• Excellent technical communication, presentation, documentation, stakeholder-management, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as onsite technical contact between customer and offshore team.
• Define solution approaches and drive architecture decisions.
• Coordinate offshore specialists and review technical deliverables.
• Manage cross-workstream dependencies and ensure quality and timelines.

Skills

Embedded software

C/C++

QNX

Embedded Linux

Android Auto

Qualcomm platforms

Architecture design

Cross-team coordination

Program coordination

Technical leadership

Customer-facing

Tools

GDB

QNX Momentics

Android NDK

Perfetto

Valgrind

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Global Connect Technologies in Portland, OR is seeking a Principal Embedded Platform Architect to serve as the single onsite technical contact between the customer and offshore engineering teams.

The role requires deep expertise in QNX, Embedded Linux, Android/Android Automotive, Qualcomm platforms, and embedded architecture, with responsibility to drive architecture decisions, coordinate offshore specialists, review deliverables, and ensure commitments are delivered on time.