2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$109k - $164k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, and maintain embedded software across the full development lifecycle for research prototypes, trials, demonstrations, and industry showcases.
- Translate high-level system designs and requirements into software designs in collaboration with system architects.
- Contribute to technical designs and reviews, including architecture, trade-offs, schedules, and risk analysis.
- Perform on-target and off-target development and debugging to resolve functional, performance, and stability issues.
- Optimize performance and timing constraints in real-time embedded systems.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including design descriptions, architecture specifications, usage documentation, and release notes.
- Contribute to subsystem-level integration and testing.
- Collaborate with system architects, baseband and RF software engineers, and test engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in C/C++ programming and object-oriented software design and development.
- Understanding of multithreading and operating-system fundamentals.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas, estimates, risks, dependencies, and work status clearly in writing and verbally.
- Ability to work effectively across teams in a fast-paced, collaborative, and diverse software engineering environment.
- Preferred: master's degree in a relevant engineering or computer science field, or two years of embedded software engineering experience.
- Preferred: familiarity with gdb, perf, and log analysis for root-cause investigation.
- Preferred: experience analyzing and optimizing CPU utilization, latency, and throughput.
- Preferred: experience with distributed systems, client-server architectures, cloud/edge computing, or end-to-end application development.
- Preferred: knowledge of network protocols, wireless systems, QoS frameworks, 5G NR, LTE, and 802.11.
- Preferred: willingness to adopt productivity-enhancement processes and tools, including AI-based tools.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
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.