Qualcomm

Senior/Staff System Architect

Qualcomm$100K — $150K *
Novi, MI 48375In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with relevant work experience
  • PhD in Engineering or related field with fewer years of experience acceptable
  • Proven experience in Advanced System and requirement engineering skills
  • Familiarity with ISO standards specific to automated driving
  • Experience with SysML modeling tools and agile methodologies; proficiency in programming (C++, Python) is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define and refine functional concepts for automated driving functions
  • Participate in agile teams utilizing SCRUM and Kanban methodologies
  • Support the creation and maintenance of driving function concepts
  • Decompose regulatory requirements into atomic requirements and analyze them in context
  • Document design decisions clearly and comprehensively
  • Communicate system architecture and standards to development teams
  • Analyze impacts of proposed process changes and requirements

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits package designed for work-life balance
  • Access to a discretionary annual bonus program
  • Opportunities for annual RSU grants for eligible employees
  • Supportive workplace culture that values inclusivity and provides accommodations for disabilities
  • Commitment to employee development and career advancement
Full Job Description
General Summary:

Our Automated Driving Teams are looking for a Staff System Architect! The Automated Driving Teams at Qualcomm are responsible for end-to-end function development. As a Staff System Architect, you will help to shape the development of our system today and into the future. You will be responsible for understanding the needs and priorities of customers and other stakeholders of the automated driving system, performing analysis and simulation, identifying appropriate tradeoffs, deriving requirements, and documentation of the system architecture for diverse stakeholders. This position is a staff level, so you are expected to provide leadership and guidance to others within and outside the team.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Advanced degree of engineering
  • Experience in Feature Development in ADAS/AD Area.
  • Advanced System and requirement engineering skills, with proven experience in defining solutions on system and SW levels.
  • Solid understanding of ISO26262, ISO21434, ISO21448 and their application to automated driving
  • Experience in SysML modeling tools like MagicDraw and Enterprise Architect
  • Experience with agile methodologies in a cross-functional team is a plus.
  • Professional experience with C++, Python, or similar programming languages is a plus.
  • A mindset of challenging the status quo and finding creative ways to do things.
  • Prior experience with concept-level analysis and architecture development for systems including both machine-learning and rule-based algorithms


Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define functional concepts for Automated Driving Functions.
  • Work in agile teams according to SCRUM and Kanban frameworks.
  • Support creation of new functional concepts and maintenance of existing functional concepts for driving functions
  • Support decomposition of regulations to atomic requirements (e.g. R157) and analysis of requirement relevance to driving functions
  • Ensure clear documentation for all design decisions.
  • Support communication and onboarding of development teams on architecture and systems engineering process, methods, and tools and their evolution over time
  • Support impact analysis and review of proposed processes and process updates
  • Support change request and problem report impact analysis and estimation
  • Assist in review and categorization of stakeholder needs
  • Assist in review and alignment of system requirements that impact multiple customer functions
  • Lead definition and monitoring of architecture KPIs
  • Lead automation of consistency checks of system architecture as well as between system architecture artifacts (and between system and SW artifacts)
  • Lead creation and maintenance of cross-workstream architecture artifacts as well as architectural views for diverse stakeholder


Level of Responsibility:
• Works independently with minimal supervision.
• Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.
• Decision-making may affect work beyond immediate work group.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information. May require negotiation, influence, tact, etc.
• Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).
• Tasks do not have defined steps; planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$100,200.00 - $150,200.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with over 150 active portfolio companies and more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, Waze, and more. As a global investor, Qualcomm Ventures helps connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships, and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

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