1 day ago
San Diego, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
Base Salary
$100k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze requirements and design robust power-management software for processors and SoC subsystems.
- Analyze existing software and recommend improvements to performance, memory use, power utilization, algorithms, and software/hardware partitioning.
- Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation, and debugging across SoC components.
- Participate in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs.
- Identify opportunities for hardware acceleration and provide recommendations to hardware teams.
- Collaborate with system, power, software, and hardware engineers across the product lifecycle from pre-silicon through commercialization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, information systems, computer science, or a related field.
- 1 to 3 years of academic or industry experience.
- Knowledge of computer architecture, preferably ARM architecture, and real-time operating systems.
- Experience with C/ASM programming and debugging real-time embedded systems using JTAG or an equivalent tool.
- Knowledge of compilers/linkers, Python scripting, embedded software, and machine learning.
- Ability to read hardware programming guides and write drivers or software based on them.
- Familiarity with version control systems such as Perforce or Git.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, interpersonal, and technical skills.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants; employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for the annual bonus.
- Competitive benefits package supporting work, home, and personal needs.
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.