Director of Engineering, Product Software - PSIC, PDT & Tools Lead

Company:

Qualcomm Vietnam Company Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Position Summary

Qualcomm is seeking a seasoned engineering leader to lead the Product Software Integration & Commercialization (PSIC) and Product Development & Test (PDT) organization in Vietnam. This role will drive software commercialization, product stability, system integration, and release execution across multiple business units (BUs), enabling successful customer launches and long-term product quality. This leader will be responsible for building and scaling high-performing teams, establishing strong BU leadership, fostering cross-organizational collaboration, and driving engineering excellence across geographically distributed teams. The role requires deep expertise in product-level software integration, system stability, software release management, customer engagement, and operational leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field.
• 15+ years of engineering experience in embedded software, platform software, system integration, product commercialization, or product stability domains.
• 7+ years of engineering leadership experience managing large, geographically distributed teams.
• Strong experience in product or system-level integration, build, software commercialization, stability test, release management, and customer engagements.
• Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional organizations across multiple product lines and business units.
• Deep understanding of product-level software integration, system architecture, quality engineering, automation, and customer deployment processes.
• Experience driving engineering productivity initiatives using automation, analytics, AI, and GenAI-based solutions.
• Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and customer engagement skills.

Key Responsibilities

Overall PSIC & PDT Functional Leadership

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for PSIC and PDT functions across multiple Qualcomm business units and product lines.
• Build, sustain, mentor, and grow a strong bench of BU-specific technical leads and engineering teams capable of independently driving execution excellence.
• Establish a scalable organizational model that promotes leadership development, succession planning, and organizational resilience.
• Drive harmonization of tools, methodologies, automation frameworks, quality metrics, and operational processes across BUs while respecting unique business requirements.
• Foster cross-pollination of technical expertise, best practices, lessons learned, and engineering innovations across organizations to accelerate growth and improve execution consistency.
• Continuously evaluate industry trends, emerging technologies, architectural changes, and customer needs to evolve organizational capabilities.
• Partner closely with software, systems, hardware, customer engineering, program management, and product management organizations to ensure successful commercialization and delivery.
• Drive accountability for execution, quality, predictability, and customer satisfaction across multiple programs and product portfolios.

Software Build, Release & Delivery Excellence

• Own software build, release, branching, and delivery governance across multiple product programs.
• Ensure predictable execution against software milestones, customer commitments, and commercialization schedules.
• Drive continuous improvements in build infrastructure, CI/CD systems, automation workflows, and release management processes.
• Establish engineering discipline around release quality, readiness criteria, risk assessments, and escalation management.
• Drive operational rigor to improve delivery predictability, software maturity, and overall customer satisfaction.

Global Collaboration, Engagement & Program Execution

• Lead globally distributed teams and drive seamless collaboration across engineering organizations located in North America, Vietnam, India, China, and other development centers.
• Build strong partnerships across software development, systems engineering, hardware engineering, program management, product management, and customer engineering teams.
• Promote a culture of transparency, accountability, ownership, technical excellence, and continuous learning.
• Provide executive leadership with clear visibility into program execution, risks, dependencies, and strategic opportunities.

• Serve as a senior technical and operational leader for strategic customers and ecosystem partners.
  • Partner with customers to understand emerging quality challenges, field issues, and product usage patterns that impact software stability.
  • Collaborate with customer engineering and test organizations to continuously enhance product-level stability validation mechanisms, test methodologies, coverage models, and quality feedback loops.
• Participate in executive reviews, customer technical discussions, commercialization readiness reviews, and strategic planning engagements.

SW Tools Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, and maintenance of scalable software tools, backend services, APIs, and platform applications.
• Define and drive the long-term technical vision for engineering productivity, automation, and platform modernization initiatives.
• Architect highly available, secure, and maintainable solutions that address current business needs while supporting future growth.
• Develop high-performance backend systems, workflow automation frameworks, reporting platforms, and engineering dashboards.
• Design and implement integrations across internal platforms, databases, cloud services, and external systems.
• Drive technical reviews, architecture discussions, proof-of-concept evaluations, and technology selection decisions.
• Champion engineering excellence through improvements in software quality, observability, performance, security, testing, deployment, and operational reliability.
• Partner closely with QA, DevOps, Infrastructure, Product Management, and Engineering teams to ensure successful end-to-end solution delivery.
• Establish and promote best practices for software architecture, development, code quality, documentation, and maintainability.
• Mentor engineers across multiple experience levels through technical coaching, design reviews, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities for automation, process optimization, and productivity improvements.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and drive execution across geographically distributed teams.

Operational Excellence, Resource Optimization & Engineering Productivity

• Drive organization-wide operational excellence through effective planning, prioritization, resource allocation, and execution management.
• Continuously evaluate opportunities to optimize engineering investments while maintaining high quality and customer satisfaction.
• Establish data-driven mechanisms to measure productivity, engineering efficiency, stability improvements, and organizational effectiveness.
• Leverage modern analytics platforms, engineering dashboards, and AI-driven insights to improve decision-making and execution predictability.
• Champion the adoption of GenAI-enabled tools and intelligent engineering workflows to improve debugging, test generation, issue triage, release management, knowledge sharing, and engineering productivity.
• Drive a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous learning to maximize organizational impact.

Leadership Expectations

• Demonstrate strong engineering judgment and mature decision-making in complex and ambiguous situations.
• Balance customer expectations, product quality, technical trade-offs, business priorities, and execution timelines.
• Develop future leaders through coaching, mentoring, and talent development.
• Create an inclusive, high-performance culture that encourages ownership, collaboration, and accountability.
• Influence senior leaders through strategic thinking, technical credibility, and data-driven recommendations.
• Lead with integrity, transparency, customer focus, and a commitment to engineering excellence.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

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