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Base Salary
$141k - $212k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain firmware and low-level system software for SoC, board, and system-level cloud and data-center platforms.
- Support platform bring-up, board validation, system integration, and real-hardware debugging with hardware teams.
- Design and develop target-side power management firmware using hardware and software components.
- Drive collaboration across hardware, firmware, and platform software teams.
- Influence architecture for power management, rack management, and observability capabilities.
- Mentor engineers and establish technical best practices.
- Support customer and production issues through field debugging and issue resolution.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in EE, CE, CS, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 6 years of experience in embedded systems, firmware, or low-level system software.
- Hands-on experience with SoC bring-up, hardware/software integration, and low-level debugging.
- Understanding of computer architecture, memory systems, interrupts, DMA, and interconnects.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and embedded Linux environments.
- Working knowledge of IPMI, MCTP, and PLDM, including SDRs, sensors, and command handling.
- Experience debugging real hardware in laboratory environments.
- Minimum qualifications also allow a bachelor’s degree with 4+ years, a master’s degree with 3+ years, or a PhD with 2+ years of related software engineering experience.
- At least 2 years of programming experience with languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Preferred qualifications include power and thermal management, platform performance tuning, stress testing, AI accelerators, high-performance interconnects, multi-device systems, chassis management, Linux device models, manufacturing test flows, and hyperscale or cloud infrastructure experience.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Role is based in San Diego, California or Boulder, Colorado.
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.