Automotive Principal Software Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Engineering Group, Engineering Group >
Software Engineering

• The idle candidate might have demonstrated ability to work with engineers/partners/customers across different geographies and contribute to large-scale SoC SW product development and customer support.
• Hands‑on technical lead/engineer who is not hesitant to dig into the details where needed to get first‑hand knowledge of the issues and play an active role in steering team success.
• Work with management team on roadmap and strategy planning.
• Working with Automotive T1/OEMs and commercialization of Automotive HW/SW platforms is a plus.
• Leverages advanced software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
• Design, develop, code, test software modules.
• Gather customer requirements, distill requirements to software architecture, create software architecture documents.
• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of software engineering or related work experience.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of software engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of software engineering or related work experience.
• 4+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• 15+ overall years of relevant experience in software design, including debugging and performance analysis.
• Working knowledge of operating systems and hypervisors such as Linux, QNX, and other RTOSs.
• System software development experience including kernels, device drivers and BSP.
• Understanding of OS internals, storage, peripherals, and interfaces such as UFS/EMMC, PCIe, SPI/UART/I2C, USB, Ethernet, etc.
• Understanding of secure and safe automotive software architecture design and development involving safety subsystems and monitors.
• System level boot, power, performance, and latency optimizations.
• Exposure to automotive software development processes and standards (e.g., ASPICE, ISO
  26262, and ISO
  21434).

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