Qualcomm

Staff Software Engineer (Data Center Test Automation)

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3 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$141k - $212k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, and maintain software for data center chipset and platform test automation.
  • Build scalable systems for test orchestration, job automation, resource management, test execution, monitoring, results processing, and failure analysis.
  • Develop backend services, REST services, databases, and automation frameworks using Python and distributed systems.
  • Create reusable APIs and frameworks supporting new chipsets, workloads, platforms, and test environments.
  • Troubleshoot issues across software services, automation infrastructure, compute resources, test environments, and target platforms.
  • Improve the performance, reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability of automation systems.
  • Translate engineering requirements into software solutions with data center, SoC, software, validation, and infrastructure teams.
  • Contribute to architecture and design decisions, conduct code and design reviews, and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 4+ years of software engineering or related experience, or a master's degree plus 3+ years, or a PhD plus 2+ years.
  • Equivalent practical experience may substitute for the bachelor's degree requirement.
  • Strong professional experience building complex, production-quality software systems.
  • Strong Python programming skills and knowledge of software design, APIs, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering practices.
  • Experience with Linux, distributed systems, REST services, databases, SQL, software automation, and parallel or distributed workloads.
  • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across applications, services, infrastructure, and automation environments.
  • Ability to independently own technical problems from design and implementation through testing and deployment.
  • Ability to collaborate across engineering disciplines and contribute to architecture and technical design decisions.
  • At least 2 years of experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
  • Preferred experience with data center silicon, CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, DSPs, NPUs, heterogeneous SoCs, test automation, validation infrastructure, job orchestration, resource scheduling, or device-management systems.
  • Preferred familiarity with data center compute architectures and workloads, including compute-intensive and AI/ML workloads, as well as pre-silicon or post-silicon validation.
  • Preferred experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, distributed compute, telemetry, observability, and platforms or APIs used by multiple engineering teams.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
  • Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
  • The posted annual pay range is $141,300.00-$211,900.00.
  • Qualcomm provides reasonable disability accommodations during the application and hiring process.
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About Qualcomm

10,000+ employees

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.

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