1 day ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$135k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, unit test, and document Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 8 protocol features.
- Design, implement, and maintain Linux wireless drivers for Qualcomm access point SoCs.
- Analyze requirements and develop software to improve wireless performance, reliability, and scalability.
- Participate in software design, implementation, code reviews, debugging, integration, and regression testing.
- Bring up, validate, and enable wireless driver functionality on new access point hardware platforms.
- Optimize driver throughput, latency, performance, and system resource utilization.
- Debug Wi-Fi protocol, interoperability, performance, and system crash issues.
- Collaborate with firmware, hardware, protocol, validation, and systems engineering teams.
- Upstream ath12k and related driver enhancements into the Linux kernel.
- Create technical design, implementation, and feature documentation.
- Support customer issue investigations and occasionally travel to customer sites for technical debugging and resolution.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of software engineering or related experience; or a master's degree plus 1+ year; or a PhD in a related field.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Preferred: 3–6 years of hands-on experience in networking, wireless LAN, IEEE 802.11, Linux kernel, or device-driver development.
- Strong C programming, data structures, and algorithms skills.
- Experience with Linux kernel architecture, Linux device drivers, networking subsystems, and networking components within the Linux kernel.
- Experience developing Ethernet, wireless LAN, or other networking drivers.
- Knowledge of wireless communication protocols, access point architecture, and WLAN driver frameworks.
- Strong debugging, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills for complex system-level issues.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- The position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.
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.