2 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$109k - $164k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate, test, and maintain embedded and system software for wireless research prototypes, demonstrations, and showcases.
- Develop end-to-end feature test plans and validate large-scale software subsystems.
- Design and maintain test frameworks, utilities, automation, and continuous or nightly regression suites.
- Configure and maintain software, hardware, device, and network environments for testing and demonstrations.
- Debug on- and off-target software using embedded and Linux debugging tools.
- Troubleshoot hardware/software integration, networking, functionality, performance, timing, and stability issues.
- Develop network diagnostics, logging, data analysis, visualization, and performance tools for root-cause analysis.
- Collaborate with software development, architecture, baseband, RF, and test teams on subsystem integration and releases.
- Create test plans, integration procedures, usage guides, release notes, and other technical documentation.
- Adopt productivity-enhancing tools and processes, including AI-assisted development and automation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience using Python or a comparable language for scripting, automation, testing, or data analysis.
- Knowledge of C/C++ and software design and development.
- Understanding of operating-system fundamentals, multithreading, concurrency, and real-time or embedded software concepts.
- Knowledge of test frameworks, utilities, and methodologies.
- Strong analysis, debugging, problem-solving, and technical communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively across teams in a diverse, fast-paced software engineering environment.
- Preferred: master's degree or 2+ years of relevant experience in embedded software, systems software, integration, or test engineering.
- Preferred: Linux development, debugging, deployment, and release experience.
- Preferred: GDB, perf, trace/log analysis, network diagnostics, performance monitoring, and data visualization experience.
- Preferred: experience with end-to-end software and hardware integration, automated regression suites, and test automation.
- Preferred: familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, wireless systems, networking, QoS frameworks, 5G NR, LTE, and IEEE 802.11.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- 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.