4 months ago
Base Salary
$181k - $271k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive firmware design, implementation, and verification in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
- Define and implement embedded firmware for CPU power and performance management across Qualcomm SoCs.
- Contribute to power management, boot, RAS, debug, security, and runtime-services firmware.
- Collaborate with hardware power-management, firmware, platform, and architecture teams on enablement, bring-up, diagnostics, and firmware lifecycle activities.
- Engage with third parties and open-source communities on processor architectures, device drivers, and firmware features.
- Define interprocessor communication interfaces between embedded controllers and the platform.
- Help identify skills requirements and participate in hiring engineers.
- Provide technical input on future Qualcomm CPU and SoC designs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years, master’s degree and 5+ years, or PhD and 4+ years of software engineering or related experience.
- At least 3 years of experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- At least 5 years of embedded firmware development experience is preferred.
- Proficiency in writing and debugging C and assembly is preferred.
- Experience developing drivers in RTOS or OS kernel environments is preferred.
- Experience with embedded operating systems such as Zephyr, eCos, µC/OS, or FreeRTOS is preferred.
- Experience with pre-silicon environments, simulators, and FPGA emulation is preferred.
- Experience defining interprocessor communication interfaces and familiarity with ARMv8 architecture are preferred.
- Technical leadership, initiative, independent judgment, planning, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills are preferred.
Benefits
- 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.