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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 modem control flows, RF controls, scheduling, and state machines.
  • Implement features based on 3GPP specifications, including 5G/6G NR, LTE, and multi-RAT operation.
  • Collaborate with modem systems, PHY, and hardware teams on end-to-end solutions.
  • Debug complex firmware, hardware, and system interaction issues and perform root-cause analysis.
  • Participate in modem platform bring-up, integration, and feature commercialization.
  • 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 relevant master’s or PhD qualification.
  • At least 3–6 years of embedded systems or firmware development experience; stated minimum qualifications range from 2+ years with a PhD to 4+ years with a master’s degree or 5+ years with a bachelor’s degree.
  • Strong C programming skills.
  • Understanding of real-time systems, interrupts, concurrency, low-level control logic, caching, and multithreaded environments.
  • Experience with RF controls and RF loops, system firmware, scheduler design, control-plane logic, and hardware-software interactions is preferred.
  • Experience with registers, interrupts, DMA, timers, embedded debugging, semiconductor development, or SoC projects is preferred.
  • Exposure to 3GPP specifications and experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot is preferred.
  • Equivalent experience may be considered when the candidate can demonstrate the required competencies and ability to perform the role.

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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