Vehicle Integration & System Test Lead

Job Posting Date

2025-09-24

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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.