2 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 technology characterization, operator trials, demonstrations, and industry showcases.
- Translate high-level system requirements and architecture into software designs and contribute to technical design reviews, architecture decisions, schedules, and risk analysis.
- Perform on-target and off-target development and debugging to resolve functional, performance, and stability issues.
- Optimize CPU utilization, latency, throughput, and timing constraints in real-time embedded systems.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including design descriptions, architecture specifications, usage notes, and release notes.
- Contribute to subsystem-level integration and testing while collaborating with system architects, baseband and RF software engineers, and test engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- Proficiency in C/C++ programming and object-oriented software design and development.
- Understanding of multithreading and operating-system fundamentals.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.
- 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 analyzing and optimizing CPU utilization, latency, and throughput.
- 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.
- Preferred: willingness to adopt productivity-enhancement tools and processes, including AI-based tools.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants are available in addition to base pay.
- Qualcomm offers a competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- This 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.