2 days ago
Base Salary
$190k - $285k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive firmware design, implementation, and verification in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
- Help define power-management solutions for future Qualcomm CPUs.
- Develop embedded firmware for CPU power and performance management in Qualcomm SoCs.
- Work on management-controller firmware features including power management, boot, RAS, debugging, security, and runtime services.
- Develop drivers, firmware features, and processor-architecture support, including contributions to open-source communities.
- Define interprocessor communication interfaces between embedded controllers and the platform.
- Collaborate with hardware power-management, firmware, platform, SoC architecture, and third-party enablement teams.
- Assist with platform bring-up, debugging, diagnostics, skills planning, and hiring engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 6+ years of software engineering or related experience; alternatively, a master's degree plus 5+ years or a PhD plus 4+ years.
- 3+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Proficiency writing and debugging C and assembly.
- Experience developing drivers in RTOS or OS-kernel environments.
- Experience with embedded operating systems such as Zephyr, eCos, uC/OS, or FreeRTOS.
- Experience with pre-silicon development using simulators and FPGA emulation.
- Experience defining interprocessor communication interfaces between embedded controllers and platforms.
- Familiarity with ARM v8 architecture; ARMV8 platform development experience is preferred.
- Experience with embedded firmware development and demonstrated technical leadership.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- The posted annual pay range is $190,200.00–$285,400.00; compensation figures are excluded from benefit details.
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.