Windows OS Drivers Developer Engineer- PC Compute
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Do you have experience in Windows?, The ideal software engineer will act as a key member of an Agile Scrum Team and play a pivotal rule in the end-to-end lifecycle of all Windows-on-Snapdragon product lines. Strong software development skills will allow you to gather requirements, design, and develop key features on Windows on Snapdragon products. Communication and collaboration skills are essential as part of this platform team as you will need to coordinate with internal and external teams to bring up, support, triage, and unblock issues on Qualcomm chipsets.
Looking for a self-starter with excellent people skills and software aptitude to match.
The Ideal Candidate will have:
- Embedded Windows software and good programming skills.
- Solid understanding of Operating System concepts.
- Windows and/or Linux kernel and development experience.
- Strong understanding of C/C++, Shell Scripting or Python skills and hands-on experience on debugging ARM or other SoC embedded systems.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills.
- Ability to co-ordinate across stakeholders and drive towards task completion., * Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field., + C/C++programming.
- Windows OS internals knowledge and experience
- Device driver programming and debugging with WinDbg, JTAG/other tools.
- Processor architecture and cache subsystem.
- Experience with PC software - System BIOS, UEFI, ACPI, Drivers, Applications
- ARM assembly
- Embedded OS (Kernel architecture, OS services heap, memory, multi-core, multi-threading, and crash debugging).
- Knowledge of OS/system performance profiling and optimization techniques.
- Communication, written & interpersonal skills, motivation, the ability to learn quickly.
- Advanced understanding of object-oriented programming principles.
- Application of design patterns to solve complex architectural challenges.
- Familiarity with Spake2+ Authentication.
- Understanding of HTTP Server/client architecture.
- Familiarity with Rust for systems-level development and Windows environments; comfortable exploring memory-safe, high-performance codebases.
Benefits & conditions
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 .