3 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAEntry Level
Base Salary
$109k - $164k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, and maintain embedded software across the full development lifecycle for wireless technology characterization, trials, demonstrations, and showcases.
- Translate high-level system designs and requirements into software designs in collaboration with system architects.
- Contribute to technical design reviews, architecture decisions, trade-offs, schedules, and risk assessment.
- Perform on-target and off-target development and debugging using embedded debugging tools and techniques.
- Optimize performance, timing, CPU utilization, latency, and throughput in real-time embedded systems.
- Create and maintain design descriptions, architecture specifications, usage documentation, and release notes.
- Contribute to subsystem-level integration and testing.
- Collaborate with system architects, baseband and RF software engineers, test engineers, and other cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and object-oriented software design and development.
- Understanding of multithreading and operating-system fundamentals.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas, work status, estimates, risks, and dependencies clearly in writing and verbally.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative, and diverse software engineering environment.
- Preferred: master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering, or two years of embedded software engineering experience.
- Preferred: familiarity with gdb, perf, and log analysis for root-cause investigation.
- Preferred: experience with distributed systems, client-server architectures, cloud or edge computing, and end-to-end application development.
- Preferred: knowledge of network protocols, wireless systems, QoS frameworks, 5G NR, LTE, and 802.11.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants are available in addition to base pay.
- Competitive benefits package supporting 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.