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Senior Firmware Engineer – 5G Modem - Hod HaSharon

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5 days ago
Haifa, IsraelSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement timing-critical firmware for 5G NR modems, including control flows, scheduling, and state machines.
  • Implement modem features based on 3GPP specifications, including 5G NR, LTE, and multi-RAT operation.
  • Collaborate with modem systems, vFW, PHY, and hardware teams on end-to-end solution definition and integration.
  • Debug complex issues involving firmware, hardware, and system interactions.
  • Participate in bring-up, integration, and commercialization of new modem platforms.
  • Contribute to design discussions, code reviews, and technical problem solving.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent qualifying master's degree or PhD.
  • Strong programming skills in C.
  • The role description requests 4–6 years of embedded systems or firmware development experience.
  • Minimum qualifications specify a bachelor's degree plus 2+ years of relevant engineering experience, a master's degree plus 1+ year, or a PhD in a related field.
  • Understanding of real-time systems, interrupts, concurrency, and low-level control logic.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
  • Preferred qualifications include cellular modem experience with 5G NR or LTE, system firmware, scheduler or control-plane logic, 3GPP specifications, hardware registers, DMA, timers, and firmware optimization for performance, latency, or power.

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10,000+ employees

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.

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