Qualcomm

Firmware Development Engineer, Sr. Staff

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4 months ago
Austin, TX, USA +2 moreStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$181k - $271k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive firmware design, implementation, and verification in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
  • Define and implement CPU power-management solutions for Qualcomm custom CPUs and SoCs.
  • Develop and debug drivers, firmware features, boot, RAS, security, debug, runtime services, and interprocessor communication interfaces.
  • Collaborate with hardware power-management teams, firmware teams, platform architects, third parties, and other groups on platform enablement and bring-up.
  • Contribute to open-source processor architecture, device-driver, and firmware support.
  • Help identify skills requirements and participate in 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.
  • At least 3 years of experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
  • Preferred experience includes 5 years of embedded firmware development and technical leadership.
  • 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 simulators and FPGA emulation, interprocessor communication interfaces, and ARMv8 platforms.
  • Ability to work independently, make significant decisions, plan complex work, and communicate effectively.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
  • Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
  • Qualcomm provides reasonable disability accommodations during the application and hiring process.

Tech Stack

AssemblyCC++JavaPython

Categories

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