2 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Drive firmware development through design, development, debugging, and verification in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
- Develop an RTOS-based core firmware stack providing services and frameworks for power management controller algorithms.
- Help define Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability solutions for future Qualcomm CPUs.
- Contribute processor architecture, device driver, and firmware feature support to open source communities.
- Collaborate on silicon and platform bring-up, debugging, and diagnostics.
- Work with hardware and firmware teams, third parties, and SoC and platform architects on platform enablement and future designs.
- Assist with identifying skills requirements and hiring engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 4+ years of software engineering or related experience; alternatively, a master's degree plus 3+ years or a PhD plus 2+ years.
- At least 2 years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience, with 8 years of embedded firmware development experience.
- Experience or familiarity with datacenter server error reporting and manageability requirements, ARM RAS specifications, ARM CPU RAS extensions, SDEI, APEI, UEFI CPER, and ARMv8 architecture.
- Proficiency writing and debugging C and assembly.
- Driver development experience in RTOS or OS kernel environments.
- Embedded OS experience with Zephyr, eCos, uC/OS, or FreeRTOS.
- Experience debugging in pre-silicon environments using simulators and FPGA emulation.
- Experience defining interprocessor communication interfaces between embedded controllers and platforms.
- Technical leadership, initiative, and experience collaborating across hardware and firmware teams.
Benefits
- The role requires frequent travel between offices, buildings, and campuses up to one-half mile and occasional transport and installation of equipment up to 5 pounds.
- The role involves computer and test-equipment use for more than 6 hours per day and continuous communication with colleagues, customers, and vendors.
- Qualcomm provides reasonable workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
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.