5 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead troubleshooting of complex power and thermal software issues across Snapdragon platforms and Android, Linux, QNX, and other operating environments.
- Analyze system-wide power-management flows across HLOS, non-HLOS, hypervisors, chipset components, and platform hardware.
- Provide customer application, workload, and system architecture recommendations, including patches, workarounds, and implementation guidance.
- Lead root-cause analysis, issue reproduction, log and trace analysis, system characterization, and corrective-action planning.
- Engage customers, Tier-1/Tier-2 partners, chipset power teams, thermal teams, architects, product managers, and regional customer engineering organizations.
- Perform power, thermal, performance, and workload characterization for AI, multimedia, connectivity, automotive, and compute use cases.
- Support workload and monitoring tools, power measurements, hardware-level analysis, SoC register analysis, and APDP generation.
- Create debug guides, architecture documentation, training materials, diagnostics, and reusable technical content.
- Conduct technical training and workshops and mentor junior and early-career engineers.
- Influence architecture and feature improvements through customer and platform experience.
Requirements
- B.E./B.Tech with 8+ years, M.Tech/M.S. with 6+ years, or Ph.D. with 4+ years in Software Applications Engineering, Embedded Systems, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role.
- At least 3 years of experience with C, C++, Python, or similar programming languages.
- At least 3 years of embedded software debugging and system-level issue resolution experience.
- Strong understanding of Linux or Android power-management fundamentals and hands-on experience across HLOS and non-HLOS components.
- Experience with Linux, Android, QNX, or another embedded/real-time operating system and with suspend, resume, shutdown, wakeup, or low-power features.
- Experience analyzing logs, traces, performance data, and power or thermal measurement results.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, communication, customer collaboration, and cross-functional problem-solving skills.
- Preferred experience includes Snapdragon power and thermal software, S2R, DSQB/Dynamic Sleep, PCM, runtime power management, TrustZone, AOP, RPMh, power-management firmware, hypervisors, virtualization, BSPs, device drivers, kernel subsystems, and embedded SoC architecture.
- Preferred experience includes JTAG, TRACE32, ftrace, systrace, perf, Trepn, SimplePerf, QPT, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, ARM architecture, and automotive or compute platforms.
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.