3 days ago
Base Salary
$170k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the platform software stack across multiple telematics chipset generations from initial bring-up through commercialization and sustaining support.
- Architect boot and recovery solutions, including fail-safe and dual-image recovery, OTA updates, and NAND/eMMC storage support.
- Contribute to platform security, including mandatory access control, verified boot, disk integrity verification, full-disk encryption, and automotive cybersecurity threat analysis.
- Set boot-time and memory-footprint targets and lead cross-team optimization against customer commitments.
- Architect fusion configurations integrating third-party application processors with cellular modems over PCIe, USB, and Ethernet.
- Plan kernel and Yocto upgrade roadmaps and release trains.
- Ensure automotive software process compliance and translate customer requirements into platform features and build configurations.
- Mentor engineers and set technical direction across boot, security, memory, and virtualization domains.
- Collaborate with Tier 1 suppliers, OEMs, industry partners, and cross-functional global teams to deliver systems through commercialization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 6+ years of software engineering or related experience; or a master’s degree plus 5+ years; or a PhD plus 4+ years.
- 3+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Deep expertise in embedded Linux systems software, including kernel development, bootloaders, Yocto-based build systems, and board bring-up.
- Experience optimizing boot time and memory footprint on resource-constrained embedded platforms.
- Strong knowledge of embedded security and automotive cybersecurity standards.
- Experience delivering software to automotive OEMs within formal development, quality, and process frameworks.
- Ability to provide technical leadership across teams without direct authority and drive cross-organizational commitments.
- Experience with system software and platform-level debugging, including pre-silicon and SoC bring-up.
- Experience with Git or Perforce, debuggers, IDEs, and build tools.
- Experience with Linux kernel device driver development and real-time operating systems.
- Excellent programming skills in C, C++, Assembly, and scripting languages.
- Experience with AI-based software development lifecycle practices and large organizations is preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Communications, or Computer Science Engineering is also listed, with a master’s degree preferred.
- 13+ years of software engineering or related industry experience with strong C/C++ programming expertise is listed as a preferred qualification.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants are offered in addition to base compensation.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- US benefits details are available through the employer’s benefits information link.
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.