Sr. Embedded Software Engineer

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what’s possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs. Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience., Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Required Skills and Aptitudes

• Proficient with development in C including debug and testing, preferably using GNU/LLVM tools, on embedded platforms using stop-mode debug tools such as JTAG/SWD
• Skilled with BSP development including device driver development, board bring-up, RTOS, secure boot design & TrustZone architecture
• Experience with development and build tools for applications running within Embedded Linux environment
• Proficient with unit testing for C development
• Adept with RTOS fundamentals, SoC architecture (core, cache, memory, bus architecture, IOs, etc.), common hardware blocks and multi-threaded programming
• Experience with Source Code and Configuration management tools such as git/Gerrit
• Ability to work in a structured software development environment while contributing to novel designs
• Have willingness and flexibility to work as part of a high-caliber international/multi-site team
• Demonstrate excellent English communication skills (written and verbal) and positive interpersonal skills

Desirable Skills and Aptitudes

• Familiar with PCIe, LPDDR, SMMU, SR-IOV
• Familiar with low-speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, SPMI, AVSBus & PMBus
• Familiar with implementing Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) through use of technologies such as ECC & PCI AER fields
• Familiar working with software running on RTOS (ARM/Risc-V CPUs and Hexagon DSPs)
• Familiar with on-chip Middleware for communication, logging and power control, including Qualcomm’s Core SW Infra (e.g., Glink, QDSS, SOC power control algorithms such as DVFS, DCVS)
• Experience OpenBMC and server management standards: IPMI, Redfish, PLDM, MCTP
• Experience working with microprocessor building blocks like microprocessor execution levels, interrupt controller & timers

• Software development and debug tools including compilers, profilers, source control systems, emulators, JTAG and serial debuggers, and logic analyzers

• Understanding of accelerator architectures, including compute engines, memory hierarchies, DMA engines, and host-device communication mechanisms

• Experience debugging performance bottlenecks across compute, memory, and I/O subsystems

• Design and implement firmware enabling scalable, topology-aware communication across AI accelerator deployments spanning SoC, card, server, rack

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 : $117,800.00 - $176,600.00

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 .