7 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$104k - $155k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, integrate, and maintain embedded software across the full development lifecycle for technology characterization, operator trials, demonstrations, and industry showcases.
- Translate high-level system requirements into software designs in collaboration with system architects.
- Contribute to technical designs and reviews, including architecture, trade-offs, schedules, and risks.
- Perform on-target and off-target development and debugging to resolve functional, performance, and stability issues.
- Optimize CPU performance, timing, latency, and throughput in real-time embedded systems.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, including design descriptions, architecture specifications, usage documentation, and release notes.
- Contribute to subsystem-level integration and testing.
- Collaborate with system architects, baseband and RF software engineers, test engineers, and other cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Proficiency in C/C++ and object-oriented software design and development.
- Understanding of multithreading and operating-system fundamentals.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas, work status, estimates, risks, and dependencies clearly in verbal and written form.
- Ability to work effectively across teams in a fast-paced, collaborative, and diverse software engineering environment.
- Preferred: master's degree in a related field or two years of embedded software engineering experience.
- Preferred: familiarity with gdb, perf, and log analysis for root-cause investigation.
- Preferred: experience analyzing and optimizing CPU utilization, latency, and throughput.
- Preferred: experience with distributed systems, client-server architectures, cloud or edge computing, and end-to-end application development.
- Preferred: knowledge of network protocols, wireless systems, QoS frameworks, 5G NR, LTE, and 802.11.
- Preferred: willingness to adopt productivity-enhancement processes and tools, including AI-based tools.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Annual base pay range of $103,600.00 to $155,400.00.
- Qualcomm provides workplace and application-process accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
About Qualcomm
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