1 day ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end power optimization across architecture, hardware, firmware, Linux kernel, Android, and system software teams.
- Define, prototype, evaluate, validate, and productize power features using pre-silicon emulation, models, trace-based studies, and post-silicon bring-up.
- Own power KPI execution for battery life, gaming, and multimedia use cases, including root-cause debugging, power walks, correlation, and systematic optimization.
- Perform software trade-off analysis using rapid prototyping, experiments, and trace-driven studies for scheduler, DVFS, low-power-mode, and system-level design decisions.
- Tune or develop firmware, Linux kernel, and system algorithms for scheduling, low-power modes, bus/DDR scaling, and SoC power-state transitions.
- Scale power-debug, analysis, telemetry, automation, and AI-assisted tooling across platforms and geographies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, information systems, computer science, or a related field.
- Strong foundation in computer architecture and system design, including memory management and hierarchies, CPU/GPU architectures, processes, threads, and scheduling.
- Proven embedded software development expertise and the ability to design and implement moderately complex systems software.
- Hands-on firmware and Linux kernel development experience.
- Understanding of electrical engineering and digital logic fundamentals; familiarity with low-power design and power-saving techniques is preferred.
- Ability to communicate effectively, work independently, and collaborate in cross-functional, multidisciplinary environments.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants, with sales-incentive-plan eligibility restrictions as stated in the posting.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- The posting states that the role 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.