Company Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary
Qualcomm is seeking a senior embedded software engineer with 3+ years of experience for the Core Platform Kernel Services Software team.
The Core Platform Kernel Services software team develops and deploys drivers and Kernel Services responsible for achieving IPC and System level Debug to multiple subsystems on Qualcomm SOCs. These SOCs serve customers across the Mobile Handset, Compute, Automotive, XR/AR, Cloud AI, IoT and IIOT market segments. The Kernel Services team develops protocols and algorithms that are central to critical operations performed by all functions of the SOC such as Sensing, Image Capture, Audio functions among hundreds of others. The team owns, maintains and develops drivers across multiple operating systems including, QuRT OS, Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeRTOS, Zephyr among others. The team actively develops open-source solutions to achieve highly performance efficient and feature rich yet configurable IPC across subsystems. The team actively engages with the open-Source community to upstream and augment associated solutions as well.
The multiple number of drivers and Services constantly evolve and find utility in various applications across multiple tiers of application across chipsets. The team works actively with OEMs, ODMs, Carriers, OS providers, etc. to perform requirements analysis towards catering to new and complex use cases on a regular basis. The successful candidate will not only have the opportunity to contribute significantly to all stages of software development, documentation, design, implementation and testing but also will have the opportunity to own and define roadmaps for significant areas of the IPC stack.
The opportunity to significantly contribute to a team that is central to every chipset that Qualcomm produces puts a great deal of responsibility to deliver high quality and highly performing solutions on a regular basis. The successful candidate should have a growth mindset willing to constantly learn new technologies and adapt to new requirements from evolving use cases. It is an expectation from all successful candidates to innovate and efficiently productize these innovations to achieve market differentiation across our product families.
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications Ideal candidates will demonstrate the following:
Principal Duties And Responsibilities Develops, creates, and modifies general computer applications software or specialized utility programs. Analyzes user needs and develops software solutions. Designs software or customizes software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency. May analyze and design databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team. Modifies existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance. Analyzes user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Confers with systems analysts, engineers, programmers, and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. Stores, retrieves, and manipulates data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements. Designs, develops, and modifies software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design. The responsibilities of this role include:
Level Of Responsibility
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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits $94,200.00 - $141,200.00
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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