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Staff Firmware Engineer - 5G/6G Modem - Qualcomm, Hod HaSharon, Israel

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Responsibilities

  • Design and implement timing-critical firmware for 5G/6G NR modems, including control flows, RF controls, scheduling, and state machines.
  • Implement features based on 3GPP specifications covering 5G/6G NR, LTE, and multi-RAT operation.
  • Collaborate with modem systems, PHY, and hardware teams to define and integrate end-to-end solutions.
  • 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, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or a master’s or PhD in a related field.
  • At least 3–6 years of embedded systems or firmware development experience, with minimum qualifications listing 2+ to 5+ years depending on education level.
  • Strong programming skills in C.
  • Understanding of real-time systems, interrupts, concurrency, and low-level control logic.
  • Experience with real-time embedded software, caching mechanisms, multithreaded environments, and concurrency management.
  • Experience with RF controls and RF loops, system firmware, scheduler design, and control-plane logic.
  • Experience debugging complex embedded systems and understanding hardware-software interactions.
  • Exposure to registers, interrupts, DMA, timers, 3GPP specifications, and semiconductor or SoC projects.
  • Knowledge of AI coding tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot is preferred.
  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, collaboration, and independent-working skills are preferred.

Tech Stack

C

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About Qualcomm

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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