2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$100k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, code, test, and integrate drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon chipsets with a focus on efficiency and robustness.
- Develop embedded software involving memory management, DMA acceleration, interrupt service routines, multithreading, synchronization, and interface design.
- Develop and deliver drivers for Android, Windows, Zephyr, and Linux.
- Collaborate with global teams and customers to support consumer products using Qualcomm display technology.
- Contribute to the design, development, and verification of next-generation processor technology.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Strong academic standing with coursework focused on software and hardware interaction.
- Excellent programming skills in C and C++.
- Experience scripting with Python.
- Ability and motivation to learn image processing and hardware acceleration technologies.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
- Preferred: basic knowledge of DirectX, WDDM, DRM, ARM, RISC-V, image processing, image manipulation, color theory, high-speed signals, electronics schematics, oscilloscopes, or logic analyzers.
- Preferred: experience building consumer electronics with development kits such as Raspberry Pi or Arduino.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and 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.