1 day ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$100k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud-edge software, applications, and specialized utility programs.
- Build embedded systems and application software for embedded processors.
- Collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, and test engineers to design system-level software solutions and address performance requirements and interfaces.
- Develop and debug software involving processor architecture, memory, board support, and peripheral control.
- Develop software for GNSS receivers and location-based systems using 3GPP location and data protocols.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of software engineering or related work experience, or a related master’s degree plus 1+ year of experience, or a related PhD.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Preferred: at least 5 years of embedded software development experience.
- Preferred: proficiency in C/C++ and familiarity with Python and shell.
- Preferred: experience with embedded development and debugging tools, FreeRTOS, Embedded Linux, Android, automotive-grade Linux and Android, GNSS receivers, location-based systems, and 3GPP protocols.
- Preferred: practical experience using AI code-assist tools such as Claude or Copilot in resource-constrained embedded software environments.
- Preferred: experience developing firmware, DSP software, and software for embedded processors.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Base pay range of $99,500.00-$149,300.00.
- 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.