1 day ago
Base Salary
$118k - $177k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, and test SoC firmware features, diagnostics, and boot capabilities for Qualcomm platforms.
- Develop system initialization, secure boot and authentication, platform configuration, multicore scheduler initialization, memory initialization, peripheral enablement, and device drivers.
- Collaborate with software, hardware, ASIC, integration, architecture, emulation, simulation, verification, tools, and test teams.
- Verify and debug firmware and drivers with emulation and hardware design teams and resolve platform issues.
- Write secure low-level firmware, participate in code reviews, and ensure firmware logic does not expose security exploits.
- Drive cross-team dependencies and deliver defined firmware tasks and releases on schedule.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of software engineering or related work experience; alternatively, a master's degree plus 1+ year or a PhD.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- 4+ years of embedded-systems experience and demonstrated C programming experience.
- Experience with device-driver development.
- Strong understanding of low-level code, system initialization, embedded programming, resource-constrained environments, and operating-system loaders.
- Preferred experience with SoC on-target bring-up, emulation, simulation, debugging, ARM microprocessor architecture, and ARM Assembly language.
- Preferred experience with UEFI Tianocore EDK2, coreboot, uboot, TF-A, or Zephyr RTOS.
- Preferred master's education in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering; 3+ years of software engineering or related experience; and 1+ year using Git, Perforce, or another source-code management system.
- Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Annual base pay range of $117,800.00-$176,600.00 is provided for the posted location.
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.