3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, modify, debug, and validate embedded software, firmware, drivers, and utility programs for Qualcomm SoC platforms.
- Develop RTOS-based software components, low-level firmware, board bring-up procedures, drivers, peripheral interfaces, and hardware/software interactions.
- Debug complex system-level issues across firmware, drivers, RTOS, and platform layers using software tools and laboratory equipment.
- Work on display technologies including frame composition and transfer, framebuffers, color formats, font rendering, vector graphics, and UI frameworks.
- Develop Python-based log analysis, test automation, debugging utilities, and workflow optimizations.
- Optimize software and AI workloads for embedded, real-time, and power-constrained platforms, including embedded AI inference and NPU acceleration.
- Collaborate with hardware, systems, architecture, validation, test, product, and customer engineering teams.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance on embedded software design, implementation, and debugging.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 9+ years of embedded software or firmware development experience is preferred for the Staff role.
- Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of related experience, master’s degree with 1+ year of related experience, or a PhD in a relevant field meets the stated minimum qualifications.
- Strong programming experience in C and C++, with at least 2 years of academic or work experience in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Strong experience with RTOS-based environments, preferably Zephyr RTOS, including scheduling, interrupts, timers, synchronization, memory management, and inter-task communication.
- Experience with ARM and/or RISC-V architectures, SoC interconnects, CPU/DSP/GPU/NPU heterogeneous computing, and embedded platforms.
- Hands-on experience with firmware development, board bring-up, driver development, debugging, boot flow, memory maps, cache/MPU/MMU concepts, peripheral registers, and low-power software design.
- Experience with display technology, vector graphics, and UI frameworks such as PELE and LVGL.
- Experience with debugging tools and equipment including logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, JTAG interfaces, Lauterbach/Trace32, and J-Link.
- Knowledge of I2C, SPI, and UART interfaces and protocols.
- Experience with FPGA-based emulation, pre-silicon environments, or post-silicon bring-up is a plus.
- Experience optimizing AI workloads for embedded platforms and with embedded AI inference and NPU acceleration.
- Technical leadership, mentoring, troubleshooting, analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills are required.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.