Build and Integration (B&I) Staff Engineer - Customer Engineering Team
Qualcomm · Posted Oct 12
Semiconductor, 5G wireless technology, mobile platform, and AI computing solutions
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About the role
The Qualcomm Customer Engineering Group collaborates closely with automotive partners and customers — from concept through commercialization — across Qualcomm's broad Snapdragon Automotive platform portfolio, supporting embedded software hardware/software architecture, feature bring-up, platform integration, customization, system validation, and complex debugging for product launch. This Staff-level Software Applications Engineering role focuses on Build & Integration (B&I) and Release Engineering for Snapdragon Automotive platforms across IVI, ADAS, and FLEX segments, spanning Linux, Android, QNX (HQX), and Gunyah Hypervisor (HGY) multi-OS virtualized stacks. The role owns and improves build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and release processes, serves as the B&I subject matter expert, mentors engineers, and engages with global automotive OEM and Tier-1 customers.
What you will do
- Own and manage end-to-end build, integration, and release activities for complex Snapdragon Automotive software products spanning multiple OS platforms.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable build infrastructures and CI/CD pipelines tailored for embedded and HLOS automotive software stacks.
- Drive continuous improvement of build systems, toolchains, automation frameworks, and release processes across program milestones.
- Establish release governance, versioning, branching, tagging, and artifact management strategies for multi-OS automotive software deliveries.
- Monitor build health, integration quality, and release readiness across multiple product streams and chipset generations.
- Collaborate with development, quality engineering, and platform teams to ensure successful integration and deployment.
- Identify bottlenecks and implement measures to improve build performance, reliability, and delivery efficiency.
- Define and maintain build and release KPIs, dashboards, and operational metrics to track program health.
- Ensure compliance with software development standards, security policies, and release governance processes.
- Lead investigations and root-cause analysis for build failures, integration issues, and release blockers.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for build and integration-related issues across the Customer Engineering (CE) team.
- Provide timely triage, troubleshooting, and resolution support for development, integration, and release issues.
- Analyze build logs, compiler errors, dependency conflicts, toolchain issues, and deployment failures.
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions for recurring engineering issues; own Change Requests (CRs) end-to-end from triage through patch validation.
- Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to resolve cross-functional technical challenges.
- Develop self-service tools, documentation, and best practices to improve engineering productivity across the BDC CE team.
- Track and manage technical debt associated with build environments, toolchains, and integration workflows.
- Serve as a key technical interface for build and integration queries from automotive OEM and Tier-1 customers across regions.
- Support Automotive RFI (AutoRFI) assessments for B&I-related NRE scoping, communicating technical complexity and resource requirements.
- Engage with customers during bring-up, pre-CS, and post-CS phases to proactively identify and mitigate build and integration risks.
- Provide on-site customer support as required during critical program milestones.
- Collaborate with NA, EU, and India CE teams to ensure global follow-the-sun build and integration support.
- Drive development and validation of build and release automation frameworks for multi-OS automotive software platforms.
- Design and maintain automated build health monitors, integration quality dashboards, and triage tooling to reduce mean time to resolution.
- Partner with platform and APT (Automated Platform Test) teams to define and integrate build qualification checks across CI/CD pipelines.
- Create and maintain build guides, integration runbooks, and reusable diagnostic artifacts for build and release issues across platforms.
- Track and analyze build and integration trends across program stages (Bringup → ES → L0–L4 → FC → CS) and communicate risk to program and customer teams.
- Contribute to secure software supply chain and DevSecOps practices within the automotive software delivery pipeline.
- Serve as the B&I SME for the BDC CE team, providing architectural guidance on build system design, integration strategy, and release engineering.
- Lead cross-functional B&I reviews with Dev, QA, DevOps, and CE teams; drive root-cause analysis delivery to enable process improvements.
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers on build system concepts, CI/CD best practices, scripting, and customer engagement.
- Influence feature design and architecture decisions to proactively prevent build and integration failures in future Snapdragon Automotive SPs.
- Scale technical knowledge through reusable documentation, training materials, and knowledge-base contributions.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- One of the following:
- B.E. / B.Tech in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, or related field with 8+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Embedded Systems, or related experience.
- M.Tech / M.S. in relevant field with 6+ years of experience.
- Ph.D. in relevant field with 4+ years of experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in build, integration, and release engineering for large-scale software products.
- Strong expertise in CI/CD pipeline design, implementation, and optimization.
- Hands-on experience with build automation systems (Make, CMake, Bazel, Ninja, Gradle, or similar).
- Proficiency in scripting languages: Python, Shell/Bash for build and automation workflows.
- Strong expertise in source control management and branching strategies (GitFlow, Trunk-Based Development).
- Experience with artifact repository management and release artifact governance.
- Experience with Linux/Unix build environments and containerized build infrastructure.
- 3+ years of customer-facing or cross-functional technical support experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to document RCAs and communicate technical findings to cross-functional teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Staff-level experience owning build and integration engineering for production automotive programs (IVI / ADAS / FLEX) from bringup through SOP.
- Experience with multi-OS build environments spanning Linux, Android, QNX (HQX), and HGY (Gunyah Hypervisor).
- Familiarity with Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive chipsets across Gen3 / Gen4 / Gen4.5 / Gen5 software delivery pipelines.
- Experience with DevSecOps practices and secure software supply chain management.
- Knowledge of containerization (Docker) and cloud-native build pipelines for embedded software.
- Familiarity with ASPICE process compliance, ASIL functional safety considerations, and automotive program delivery cycles.
- Experience with AutoRFI processes, NRE scoping, and CDEV (Chipset Development) activities within CE programs.
- Knowledge of build and release KPI frameworks, dashboards,...
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a global leader in the development and commercialization of foundational technologies for the wireless industry, including mobile processors, 5G, and on-device artificial intelligence. The company designs and markets digital communications products, semiconductor solutions, and system software used globally across smartphones, automotive solutions, IoT devices, and computing systems. Through extensive R&D and intellectual property licensing, Qualcomm powers a highly interconnected and smarter world.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 50000+ employees
- Founded
- 1985
- Location
- San Diego, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $53M raised
- 2018-11-01Grant
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
James H. Thompson
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
Ann Chaplin
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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