Build and Integration - B&I, Staff Engineer, Customer Engineering Team, Software Applications Engineering
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Expert
Bachelor's, Master's, PhD
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Hybrid
DevOps & InfrastructureDevOps Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- A B.E./B.Tech in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, or a related field with 8+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Embedded Systems, or related experience; or an M.Tech/M.S. in a relevant field with 6+ years of experience; or a Ph.D. in a relevant field with 4+ years of experience.
- At least 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 such as Make, CMake, Bazel, Ninja, or Gradle.
- Proficiency in Python and Shell/Bash scripting for build and automation workflows.
- Strong expertise in source control management and branching strategies, including GitFlow and Trunk-Based Development.
- Experience with artifact repository management and release artifact governance.
- Experience with Linux/Unix build environments and containerized build infrastructure.
- At least 3 years of customer-facing or cross-functional technical support experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document root-cause analyses and communicate technical findings to cross-functional teams.
- A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development, or related work experience; or a master's degree in those fields and 3+ years of such experience; or a Ph.D. in those fields and 2+ years of such experience.
- At least 2 years of experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- At least 1 year of experience with debugging techniques.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage end-to-end build, integration, and release activities for complex Snapdragon Automotive software products spanning multiple operating system platforms.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable build infrastructures and CI/CD pipelines tailored for embedded and high-level operating system 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-operating-system 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 key performance indicators, 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 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 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 Customer Engineering 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 original equipment manufacturer and Tier-1 customers across regions.
- Support Automotive RFI assessments for build-and-integration-related non-recurring engineering scoping, communicating technical complexity and resource requirements.
- Engage with customers during bring-up, pre-commercial-sample, and post-commercial-sample phases to proactively identify and mitigate build and integration risks.
- Provide on-site customer support as required during critical program milestones.
- Collaborate with North America, Europe, and India Customer Engineering teams to ensure global follow-the-sun build and integration support.
- Drive development and validation of build and release automation frameworks for multi-operating-system 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 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 (Bring-up, ES, L0–L4, FC, and 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 build-and-integration subject matter expert for the BDC Customer Engineering team, providing architectural guidance on build system design, integration strategy, and release engineering.
- Lead cross-functional build-and-integration reviews with development, quality assurance, DevOps, and Customer Engineering 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 software programs.
- Scale technical knowledge through reusable documentation, training materials, and knowledge-base contributions.
Desired Qualifications
- Staff-level experience owning build and integration engineering for production automotive programs (IVI, ADAS, or FLEX) from bring-up through start of production.
- Experience with multi-operating-system build environments spanning Linux, Android, QNX (HQX), and HGY (Gunyah Hypervisor).
- Familiarity with Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive chipsets across Gen3, Gen4, Gen4.5, and Gen5 software delivery pipelines.
- Experience with DevSecOps practices and secure software supply chain management.
- Knowledge of containerization with 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, non-recurring engineering scoping, and Chipset Development activities within Customer Engineering programs.
- Knowledge of build and release key performance indicator frameworks, dashboards, and workload-based productivity trend analysis.
- Proven experience collaborating with global automotive original equipment manufacturer and Tier-1 customers on build, integration, and release escalations.
About the company
Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon processors and modems inside many Android phones, and it licenses its wireless patents to device makers around the world. It helped commercialize CDMA, the cellular technology behind 3G networks, and its patents cover core parts of the 4G and 5G standards that phones use to connect. The company does not run its own chip factories; contract foundries make its chips, which it sells to makers of phones, PCs, cars, and connected devices. Device makers also pay Qualcomm royalties for using its patented technology, which forms a second business alongside chip sales. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Diego, California
Founded
1985
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What believers are saying
- Cars are a second engine: automotive chip revenue rose 61% to $1.59 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
- Pays for learning: Qualcomm funds tuition assistance and apprenticeships and sells staff discounted shares through a stock purchase plan.
- Profits support stability: Qualcomm earned $2.21 non-GAAP per share in the June 2026 quarter despite a 4% sales dip.
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- Apple is walking away: Qualcomm expects Apple revenue to fall about 50% from the September to December 2026 quarter.
- Data-center deals start thin: in July 2026, management said custom chips will cut chip gross margin 1.5 to 2 points.
- Cuts keep trickling: Qualcomm filed WARN notices in April 2026 covering 144 layoffs, including 68 in San Diego.
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- Phones are only part of it: handsets were $5.09 billion of $8.50 billion chip revenue in fiscal Q3 2026.
- Cloud giants buy its custom chips: two hyperscaler design wins start producing revenue in the December 2026 quarter.
- It owns an AI software layer: Qualcomm completed its Modular acquisition in July 2026 for open generative AI software.
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Benefits
- Premium-free health coverage
- Onsite health & fitness centers
- Retirement programs
- Disability & life insurance programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Product discounts
- Flexible time off
- Parental leave