1 day ago
San Diego, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
Base Salary
$115k - $172k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, debug, and optimize modem firmware and software for LTE, 5G-Advanced protocol-stack layers, and early 6G research prototypes.
- Develop and maintain real-time embedded software on the proprietary QuRT RTOS under strict latency and throughput constraints.
- Collaborate with systems, architecture, and hardware teams on modem bring-up, integration, and performance optimization.
- Analyze and resolve field issues, interoperability problems, and network-specific behaviors using protocol logs, trace tools, and debuggers.
- Write and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and automation scripts to ensure software quality.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics/Communication Engineering, Wireless Communications, or a related field.
- 1–2 years of academic or industry experience in C/C++ programming.
- Foundational understanding of embedded systems, real-time operating systems, and data structures and algorithms.
- Basic knowledge of wireless communications concepts such as OFDM, MIMO, channel coding, or digital signal processing fundamentals.
- Preferred: 2+ years of industry experience in embedded software development for wireless or telecommunications systems.
- Preferred: experience with QuRT, FreeRTOS, ThreadX, or Zephyr and strong object-oriented software design and implementation skills.
- Preferred: working knowledge of 3GPP 5G NR/LTE specifications and experience with modem protocol stacks, state machines, or wireless protocol implementation.
- Preferred: familiarity with AI/ML fundamentals, scripting or domain-specific configuration languages, embedded debugging and profiling, simulation or emulation environments, and lab equipment.
- Preferred: familiarity with Git or Perforce, multithreading, concurrency, inter-process communication, memory management, and embedded resource constraints.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Qualcomm is committed to providing reasonable workplace and application-process 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.