2 months ago
Base Salary
$141k - $212k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze requirements and design software solutions for power-efficient operation across processor subsystems and SoCs.
- Optimize software performance, memory utilization, and power consumption, including software and hardware partitioning and algorithm improvements.
- Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation, and debugging across SoC components.
- Participate in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs.
- Identify hardware acceleration opportunities and provide recommendations to hardware teams.
- Develop firmware and software for memory- and CPU-constrained systems and manage performance, power, and thermal tradeoffs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 4+ years of software engineering or related experience; or a master's degree plus 3+ years; or a PhD plus 2+ years.
- At least 2 years of work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Preferred qualifications include 7-10 years of academic or industry experience with computer architecture, real-time operating systems, embedded software, C/Assembly programming, JTAG-based debugging, compilers, linkers, Python scripting, hardware programming guides, drivers, machine learning, and Perforce or Git.
- ARM architecture experience and familiarity with Android, HLOS, and software across SoC components are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- The posting provides a US benefits information link and states that recruiters can discuss available benefits.
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.