Automotive Platform Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 17 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Very high offer value due to substantial technical requirements, alignment with industry-leading innovation, and competitive pay potential.
- High impact role in advanced automotive technologies
- Strong potential for career growth and innovation
- Attractive compensation aligned with industry standards
Pros
- Involvement in cutting-edge technology and innovations
- Strong career advancement opportunities within a major company
- Attractive salary range for skilled engineers
Cons
- High-pressure environment with stringent requirements
- Potential for long hours depending on project deadlines
- Job requires advanced technical skills that may limit applicants
Who it's for
Senior • Onsite/Hybrid
Good fit
- Senior engineers specializing in embedded systems
- Professionals passionate about safety in automotive tech
- Individuals eager to push boundaries in innovation
Not recommended for
- Entry-level engineers or those without relevant experience
- Candidates averse to fast-paced work environments
- Individuals seeking roles with minimal technical challenges
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Job Description
Job Posting Date
Company:
Qualcomm India Private Limited Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software EngineeringGeneral Summary:
In this role, the candidate will work with local and global teams to understand, define and implement and productize Automotive specific features including software enablement (drivers/BSP/RTOS/AUTOSAR MCAL), security, functional safety, and power applied to Automotive products on our current and next generation SoCs. The candidate will also have the responsibility to coordinate and execute plans which will encompass validation of all the feature requirements. The Candidate will have the responsibility to identify and address any abnormal discoveries by root-causing and providing detailed corrective actions in the form of optimizations and/or fixes. When possible, the candidate is expected to prototype and pre-validate recommended fixes. Additionally, the candidate will be responsible for any automation of design under test along with validation efforts and working closely with design/production/bench IP teams.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.3-6 years of Embedded Software Development experience, including low level drivers, and RTOS
The candidate should possess 3 to 6 years of industry experience in embedded software driver development and having expertise in one or more below areas would be preferred:
Should be able to ramp up fast and must have the attitude to work with the team.
Strong C and Assembly Programming with OS & Multi-Processor concepts
Embedded software development in C and C++ on ARM or similar cores.
Hands on experience of driver development on any RTOS,
Experience in SafeRTOS/FreeRTOS based development is nice to have
Experience in Autosar MCAL development is nice to have
Experience in Autosar BSW integration and validation is nice to have
ARM Trust-Zone & ARMv7/v8 architecture.
Good debugging skills with experience on debugging with Lauterbach JTAG debuggers.
Work on challenging customer requirements and issues.
Basic understanding one or more of hardware blocks - Clocks, PLLs, GPIO, Interrupt Controllers (GIC), Peripherals (SPI/I2C/UART/CAN/Ethernet/Clock/etc)
Automotive SW development experience is must have
Experience in ISO26262/functional safety and ASPICE is highly desirable
Basic knowledge on Power Mgmt. IC is desirable
Knowledge of Software/Hardware Security concepts is desirable
- Closely work with the hardware team to contribute/suggest modifications to the hardware design.
- Any past working experience on Qualcomm chips nice to have
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