2 days ago
Base Salary
$135k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, unit test, and document Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 8 protocol features.
- Design, implement, and maintain Linux wireless drivers for Qualcomm access-point SoCs.
- Analyze requirements and optimize wireless system performance, reliability, scalability, throughput, latency, and resource utilization.
- Perform software design, feature implementation, code reviews, debugging, integration, bring-up, validation, and regression testing on new access-point hardware platforms.
- Debug and resolve Wi-Fi protocol, interoperability, performance, and system crash issues.
- Collaborate with firmware, hardware, protocol, validation, and systems engineering teams.
- Upstream ath12k and related driver enhancements into the Linux kernel.
- Create and maintain technical design, implementation, and feature documentation.
- Support customer issue investigations and occasionally travel to customer sites for technical debugging and resolution.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of software engineering or related experience; or a master's degree plus 1+ year; or a PhD in a related field.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Preferred: 3–6 years of hands-on experience in networking, wireless LAN, Linux kernel, or device driver development.
- Strong C programming, data structures, and algorithms skills.
- Experience with Linux kernel architecture, Linux device driver development, Linux networking subsystems, and networking components in the Linux kernel.
- Experience developing Ethernet, wireless LAN, or other networking drivers.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals, protocol stacks, wireless communication protocols, access-point architecture, and WLAN driver frameworks.
- Strong debugging, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills for complex system-level issues.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants are available in addition to base pay.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
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.