Software Engineer - Staff

Qualcomm•San Diego, CA

fulltime

Other

8+ years

About the role

Company Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary Qualcomm is looking for talented and enthusiastic engineers with strong interests and experience in OS, Hypervisor, kernel and computer architecture. The Qualcomm Hypervisor team is world-leading, enabling virtualization across multiple chipset products for mobile, automotive, compute and IoT. The team is responsible for the hypervisor software layers that plays a key role in platform security and performance.

Qualcomm is industry leading in its adoption of virtualization technology in its Snapdragon mobile products. The team has built hypervisor and SMMU expertise and continues to develop innovative features, enhancements, and use-cases.

As a software engineer at Qualcomm, you will help develop SMMU, hypervisor/Virtualization and related software for the latest cutting-edge Application processors, which is embedded in a wide range of chipset products and used by many OEMs in millions of devices. The role will include interfacing with large software stacks such as Bootloaders, Linux and TrustZone – which provides the opportunity to interact with teams around the world.

We are looking for a highly motivated engineer and team player who is passionate to learn new technologies and write low level firmware that drives hardware and SoC.

Your Responsibilities May Include

Design, development and integration of SoC firmware features, diagnostics and test capabilities for QCT platforms.
Strong coordination and collaboration across wide range of technical areas to include software, hardware, ASIC, integration, architecture, and emulation teams.
Paying attention to the details during all phases of firmware design, development, integration, testing and release - Work with Emulation, HW design teams, as necessary, in verifying and debugging firmware, driver and resolving platform issues
Efficient and secure (ie. cognizant of not exposing security exploits) coding plus driving code review of firmware logic updates with all required stakeholders
On time execution of defined tasks and deliverables, driving dependencies with other teams to closure
Triage of software issues, defect investigation and problem resolution.
Technical documentation including APIs, manuals, and user guides. –
Skills and Experience We are looking for engineers from a range of backgrounds and experience, including graduates and experienced kernel and systems developers

Preferred Skills And Experience

8+ years of experience in Operating Systems Internals, Linux Kernel, Embedded Firmware, Device drivers, Virtualization/Hypervisor ( KVM/pKVM/XEN/Gunyah etc).
Strong understanding or experience with C language and Data structures/Algorithms.
An understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and kernels. Linux, bootloader , PCIe or OS development experience.
ARM CPU architecture knowledge. IOMMU and ARM SMMU knowledge Hypervisors and virtualization.
Experience with multi-processing or multi-threading, concurrency, and synchronization. Writing device drivers and interfacing hardware.
Experience with secure coding.
Use of debugging tools such as GDB, Lauterbach Trace32 and understanding assembly. Real-time OS. Toolchains and systems libraries (libc etc).
Python, shell scripting and Linux based development environment.
Good communication and presentation skills.
Test development and test automation.
Contributing to open-source projects.
Demonstrated independent software design, good analytic and problem-solving skills. Any automotive and functional safety experience may also be relevant

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
3+ years of experience with Database Management Software.
3+ years of experience with API.
1+ year of work experience with Git, Perforce, or Source Code Management System.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

Leverages advanced Software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
Analyzes user needs, software requirements, and time and cost constraints to design and customize software for optimal operational efficiency.
Designs and implements software modules for large-scale products and systems.
Participates in and leads design, coding, unit testing, debugging, and integration efforts to ensure projects are completed to specifications and schedules.
Performs complex code reviews and regression tests as well as triages and fixes issues to ensure the quality of code.
Collaborates with individuals outside the software function (e.g., Hardware, Systems, and Test engineers) to ensure solutions work with other components of a specific project.
Writes detailed technical documentation for complex Software projects.

Level Of Responsibility

Works independently with minimal supervision.
Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.
Decision-making is significant in nature and affects work beyond immediate work group.
Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information. May require basic negotiation, influence, tact, etc.
Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).
Tasks often require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; extensive planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits $134,800.00 - $202,200.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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