18 days ago
Base Salary
$118k - $177k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define, implement, and execute RF system validation strategies across modem software, RF hardware, and integrated platform solutions.
- Develop and maintain automated test frameworks for wireless functionality, performance, stability, and standards compliance.
- Analyze test results and identify root causes across modem software, RF subsystems, test infrastructure, and hardware interactions.
- Collaborate with software, systems, hardware, and integration teams to resolve issues and drive product readiness.
- Design and improve automated regression and qualification methodologies for rapid, high-quality software releases.
- Interpret and apply 3GPP specifications to ensure complete test coverage for new wireless features and technologies.
- Execute and analyze RF measurements involving transmitter and receiver performance, spectrum emissions, waveform quality, mobility, and interoperability.
- Use AI-assisted tools for test development, log analysis, issue triage, coverage assessment, and root-cause investigations.
- Develop scripts and tools for test efficiency, reporting, data analysis, and engineering workflows.
- Evaluate emerging modem and RF features and define scalable, reusable validation methodologies across products.
- Contribute to engineering process, automation infrastructure, and AI-assisted validation improvements.
- Share expertise and advance engineering best practices across the team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience; or a master's degree plus 1+ year; or a PhD in a related field.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Strong understanding of wireless communication systems and RF fundamentals.
- Experience with 3GPP cellular technologies and RF measurements such as power, spectrum, emissions, receiver sensitivity, and modulation quality.
- Experience defining test plans, methodologies, and coverage strategies and troubleshooting complex system-level failures.
- Experience developing automation solutions using Python and/or C++.
- Familiarity with large-scale automated test environments, continuous integration workflows, log analysis, issue tracking, test reporting, and quality metrics.
- Interest or experience in applying AI-assisted tools, AI assistants, and agentic tools to engineering, automation, analysis, debugging, defect classification, root-cause analysis, and data summarization.
- Ability to critically evaluate AI-generated output and validate technical correctness.
- Experience with RF test equipment, cellular base station emulators, test automation frameworks, SQL, data analytics tools, cellular protocol analysis, or diagnostic tools is a plus.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants are offered in addition to base pay.
- Competitive benefits package designed to support employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable disability accommodations during the hiring process.
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.