2 days ago
Base Salary
$118k - $177k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze requirements and design software solutions that improve power efficiency across processor and SoC subsystems.
- Analyze existing software and recommend improvements to performance, memory usage, power utilization, software/hardware partitioning, and algorithms.
- Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation, and debugging across SoC components.
- Participate in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs.
- Recommend opportunities for hardware acceleration and collaborate with hardware teams.
- Develop firmware for memory- and CPU-constrained systems and support software interactions across SoC components.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of software engineering or related experience; alternatively, 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 experience includes 4-8 years in computer architecture, real-time operating systems, C/assembly programming, embedded-system debugging, compilers/linkers, Python scripting, embedded software, and machine learning.
- Experience with ARM architecture, JTAG or equivalent debugging, hardware programming guides, driver/software development, and Perforce or Git is preferred.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants are available in addition to base pay.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable disability accommodations during the hiring process.
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.