3 days ago
Base Salary
$109k - $164k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize real-time embedded modem software across protocol layers, drivers, and platform services.
- Apply data-structure and algorithm design to build efficient firmware under latency, memory, and power constraints.
- Own feature delivery from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, hardware bring-up, and maintenance.
- Integrate AI coding agents and establish agent rules and prompt patterns for embedded development workflows.
- Build AI-assisted tooling for code review, static analysis, test synthesis, and automated crash and log triage.
- Debug complex issues on target hardware using logs, traces, RAM dumps, and AI-assisted analysis.
- Collaborate with systems, hardware, test, and integration teams to deliver production-quality modem firmware.
- Contribute to code and design reviews, engineering standards, and responsible AI use in the software development lifecycle.
- Mentor peers in embedded software fundamentals and AI-native engineering techniques.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience designing and developing real-time embedded software in C/C++ for resource-constrained systems.
- Ability to work with DSP and Arm cores, cellular protocol layers, device drivers, and RTOS-level components.
- Ability to perform on-target debugging, testing, and root-cause analysis across complex firmware systems.
- Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, code review, testing, and software architecture.
- Ability to use or develop AI-assisted engineering workflows and tooling.
Benefits
- Competitive 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.