#Software Engineer - Power and Limits Management

As a Power and Limits software engineer, candidates will own or participate in one or more of the following:

• Multiple aspects of software development - analyzing the requirements, designing robust software solutions, and ensuring that the power efficiency is met, for current and next generation chipsets to meet the growing product requirements on processors across various subsystems on the SoC
• Perform detailed analysis of the existing software to provide innovative recommendations to improve performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, new algorithms etc.
• Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation and debugging across all SOC components
• Involvement in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs
• Scope opportunities for HW acceleration by providing recommendations to the HW team, * Developing firmware for memory and CPU constrained systems
• Analyzing the execution efficiency of power software
• Managing the performance/thermal efficiency tradeoffs
• SOC level interactions between various software components
• Machine learning on data sets spanning across generations of product architectures,
• IoE/IoT sectors, and
• Working with various HLOS (eg: Android) on application cores to meet end-to-end performance

Do you have experience in Version control?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with high expectations

• Passionate for building great products, with a willingness to disrupt the status quo and push boundaries to deliver innovations that affect the experience of millions of end users
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills
• Excellent technical communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and quick-learner
• Meticulous attention to detail, * Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field., Up to 4 years of industry experience in the following:
• Computer Architecture (ARM architecture preferred)
• Real Time Operating Systems
• C/ASM programming
• Debugging Real Time Embedded Systems using JTAG or equivalent
• Compilers / Linkers
• Python Scripting
• Ability to read hardware programming guides and write drivers/software based on that information
• Embedded software
• Machine Learning
• Agile development; Kanban
• Version control systems such as Perforce/Git

4.04.0 out of 5 stars San Diego, CA $94,200 - $141,200 a year, Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits : $94,200.00 - $141,200.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link .