3 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$129k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, review, maintain, test, and optimize real-time embedded location software.
- Develop multithreaded software with inter-process communication and multiple software/firmware interfaces.
- Collaborate with hardware teams to verify hardware features and debug hardware-related issues.
- Work with systems teams on algorithm development, digital signal processing, and implementation.
- Diagnose and resolve system-level functional and performance issues with test teams.
- Contribute to software architecture, system design discussions, and development methodology.
- Optimize software for performance, memory usage, and power efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience; or 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 3–5 years of experience designing, developing, and debugging medium- to large-scale real-time embedded systems.
- Strong C programming experience and understanding of RTOS and multithreaded software design.
- Experience with ARM-based development and debugging tools such as TRACE32.
- Background in digital signal processing and GNSS receiver concepts and operation.
- Experience with GNSS measurement engine receiver design, signal acquisition and tracking, navigation algorithms, state machines, and optimization techniques.
- Knowledge of WWAN technologies such as WCDMA, LTE, and 5G or other communication protocols.
- Experience with MATLAB and scripting languages such as Python or Perl.
- Experience with MIPS profiling, memory optimization, and power optimization.
Benefits
- Base pay range is $129,300.00–$193,900.00, with a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package designed to support employees at work, at home, and at play.
- The position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.
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.