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.

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.

Director of Engineering, Product Software - PSIC & PDT Lead