Senior Data Lead – Autonomous Driving Stack

Qualcomm

Actively hiring
San Diego, CA · Santa Clara, CA Posted 72 days ago $228,400$342,600 / year

At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Senior Data Lead in Qualcomm’s ADAS R&D Software team, you will own the end-to-end data strategy for an advanced E2E AI-based Autonomous Driving stack, ensuring that data drives learning, performance, safety, and scalability across perception and planning systems. Your day-to-day responsibilities include defining and driving the data strategy, managing the full lifecycle of fleet data from ingestion to annotation, collaborating with technical peers on architecture decisions, and enabling closed/open-loop learning for continuous model improvement. This hands-on leadership role requires expertise in AD stack development, large-scale ML systems, and MLOps, as well as a deep understanding of data pipelines and validation processes. You will work within the context of developing highly complex software solutions for autonomous vehicles, leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to enhance camera perception, sensor fusion, behavior prediction, and planning algorithms.

Skills

Python C++ MachineLearning Kubernetes Docker Terraform AWS CI/CD MLOps PostgreSQL Redis Git Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Kafka Hadoop Spark TensorFlow

What you'll do

  • Define and drive the data strategy for an E2E AI-based AD stack.
  • Own the full data lifecycle from ingestion to reprocessing.
  • Act as a technical peer to shape architecture through data-driven insights.
  • Ensure data translates into measurable system performance improvements.
  • Enable closed/open-loop learning from real-world operation to model improvement.

What we're looking for

  • Deep experience in AD/ADAS stack development (perception & planning).
  • Expert understanding of large-scale ML/E2E AI systems.
  • Strong background in data pipelines, fleet data, MLOps, and validation.
  • Proven ability to define and drive end-to-end data strategy for E2E AI-based AD stacks.
  • Technical leadership role with hands-on experience in closed/open-loop learning from real-world operation.
  • Ability to operate at system and product level, not just data operations.

Market check

Salary context

This $228,400–$342,600 range sits above 91% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$166,500$241,500

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$162,000$235,750

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

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About Qualcomm

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