Director, Lead Project Engineer (PE), Autonomous Driving Platform Delivery
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The Director, Lead Project Engineer owns technical strategy, execution, and delivery for large-scale autonomous driving customer programs. The role leads cross-organizational engineering alignment, platform integration, and Pre-Integration Environment readiness, while managing milestones, dependencies, risks, and escalations. It also provides executive visibility into program health and drives customer acceptance, deployment readiness, and production launch.
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Responsibilities End-to-End Program Technical Ownership - Own overall technical strategy, execution, and delivery of large-scale Autonomous Driving customer programs. - Establish program-level technical objectives, success criteria, execution frameworks, and delivery plans. - Drive alignment of engineering milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and priorities across all contributing organizations. - Ensure execution remains aligned with customer commitments, product roadmaps, quality objectives, and business goals. - Serve as the primary technical decision-maker and escalation point for critical program issues. - Provide executive leadership visibility into technical health, key dependencies, risks, issue resolution plans, and program readiness. - Drive execution predictability through structured governance, technical reviews, and milestone management. - Ensure successful customer acceptance, deployment readiness, and production launch. Cross-Organizational Engineering Leadership Provide leadership and technical direction across: - AD Stack Delivery - Systems Engineering - Customer Engineering - Validation and Integration - Release Engineering - Safety and Quality organizations Act as the primary engineering stakeholder toward: - AD Core Software - Platform Solutions - Tier 1 partners - Software Integration partners - Customer engineering organizations Key responsibilities include: - Establishing unified execution models across multiple customer programs. - Ensuring efficient utilization and integration of deliverables from core software, platform, Tier 1 suppliers, and customer teams. - Driving accountability for committed deliverables and milestones. - Resolving organizational conflicts, priority misalignment, and resource constraints. - Managing critical cross-functional dependencies and execution risks. - Facilitating executive-level technical tradeoffs and engineering decisions. - Aligning all participating organizations around common program objectives and delivery commitments. Platform Enablement and Integration Leadership - Own integration strategy for deployment of Qualcomm AD software on customer target platforms. - Drive hardware, software, infrastructure, tooling, and laboratory readiness across all phases of development. - Ensure successful integration of platform software, middleware, AD applications, and customer-specific software components. - Provide executive oversight of platform stabilization and integration issue resolution. - Drive achievement of platform readiness criteria required for validation, qualification, and deployment milestones. - Partner with platform and systems teams to proactively identify and mitigate integration risks. - Ensure platform maturity supports efficient advancement into validation and vehicle deployment phases. Pre-Integration Environment (PIE) Leadership Own readiness and execution of all customer and partner Pre-Integration Environment (PIE) activities. Define integration strategies, validation objectives, readiness metrics, and success criteria for PIE deployments. Drive alignment between Qualcomm engineering organizations, Tier 1 suppliers, software integration partners, and customer teams. Resolve complex integration challenges spanning software, systems, networking, infrastructure, tooling, and platform domains. Ensure PIE activities effectively reduce program risk and accelerate downstream validation and vehicle deployment activities. Monitor execution progress and drive rapid closure of blo
How this job compares
Set against the 745 open Project Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$108–164K/yr326 salary ranges
- US median$24–27/hr67 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 745 open Project Engineering jobs across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
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- Education
- 349 of the 745 open Project Engineering jobs (47%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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