Company:
Qualcomm Japan GK
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering
General Summary:
System Test Engineering, Staff Engineer (R40)
The role is at the heart of our fleet development, driving the integration, testing, and optimization of cutting-edge systems that power intelligent mobility.
This role also leads hands-on engineering efforts to ensure our autonomous test vehicles are fully equipped, operational, and ready for real-world validation. Work will span hardware, software, and cross-functional collaboration, enabling breakthrough innovations in autonomous driving.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 8+ years of Systems Test Engineering or related work experience.
- Electrical qualification
- Experience in vehicle disassembly, harness manufacturing, and sensor integration
- Strong understanding of vehicle networks (CAN, FlexRay, Ethernet)
- Hands-on experience with dGPS, RADAR, LiDAR, and camera systems
- Programming skills in embedded C and Python
- Familiarity with Linux systems, IP networking, and scripting
- Excellent communication skills in English and Japanese
- Valid driver’s license (Type B or equivalent)
Preferred additional Qualifications
- Automotive high-voltage training
- Experience with ADTF, CANoE, CANalyzer or similar tools
- Familiarity with ROS and GIT environments
- Mechanical design and CAD experience
- RF technologies and wireless sensor setup
- Experience in customer-facing demos, trials, and technical support
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conducts log analyses with team members to identify where an issue has occurred and makes recommendations for how to address the issue.
- Verifies that proposed solutions to identified issues accurately address and correct the problem and do not impact other functionalities.
- Reviews functional test and adds additional test cases when necessary to ensure that issues are fully understood and analyzed.
- Reviews results documents to assist team in determining root causes of testing errors and determines best way to debug. Prioritizes errors as required.
- Identifies test requirements based on input from team and manager with minimal oversight.
- Participates in project review sessions within team to deliver constructive feedback on testing problems encountered by more junior staff.
- Displays expertise for the different features of the system.
- Collects information (e.g., logs, requirements) across team members and identifies fundamental patterns/trends related to systems testing.
- Reviews performance test and adds additional test cases when necessary to ensure that issues are fully understood and analyzed.
- Serves as a mentor to Engineers and Senior Engineers and teaches them about complex features, systems, testing strategies, and automation.
- Addresses general technical issues and escalates only highly complex technical issues to tech leads or Principal Engineers.
- Determines if issues should be tested in the field or in the lab and ensures that all possible scenarios are addressed in the test plans.
- Collaborates with functional and lab teams, IO teams, network operators, field teams, and product management teams to ensure that the testing plan is accurate for addressing feature issues.
- Implements a testing plan by attempting to cause a failure within multiple areas of code.
- Install and configure advanced sensors (LiDAR, RADAR, cameras, GPS, etc.) and ECUs
- Calibrate and diagnose electronic and mechanical measurement systems
- Integrate ECU software and configure ADAS features
- Program and deploy gateway software
- Troubleshoot complex system-level issues across hardware and software
- Oversee maintenance and repair of vehicles and lab equipment
- Define and execute service plans for test benches and data acquisition systems
- Lead equipment procurement and ensure facility safety compliance
- Collaborate with site management on infrastructure and safety improvements
- Interface with software, hardware, calibration, and infrastructure teams
- Drive preparation and execution of demos, trials, and trade shows
- Support hands-on testing, including occasional domestic/international travels.
Level of Responsibility:
- Working independently with little supervision.
- Making decisions that are moderate in impact; errors may have financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships; errors may require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.
- Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
- Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).
- Completing tasks that do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.
- Exercising substantial creativity to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.
- Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.
- Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.
The responsibilities of this role do not include:
- Financial accountability (e.g., does not involve budgeting responsibility)
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.
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