Software Engineer - Power and Limits Management

Responsibilities

• Own or participate in multiple aspects of power and limits software development, including analyzing requirements, designing robust solutions, and ensuring power efficiency for current and next‑generation chipsets.
• Perform detailed analysis of existing software to recommend innovative performance, memory, and power utilization improvements, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, and new algorithms.
• Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation, and debugging across all SOC components.
• Participate in pre‑silicon evaluations and sign‑offs.
• Identify opportunities for hardware acceleration by recommending HW enhancements to the hardware team.

• Desire to work in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment with high expectations.
• Passionate about building great products and willing to disrupt the status quo to deliver innovations that affect millions of end users.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent technical communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self‑motivated and quick‑learner with meticulous attention to detail.

• Develop firmware for memory and CPU‑constrained systems.
• Analyze execution efficiency of power software and manage performance/thermal efficiency tradeoffs.
• Engage in SOC‑level interactions between various software components.
• Apply machine learning to data sets across product architectures, IoE/IoT sectors, and HLOS (e.g., Android) application cores.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• Up to 4 years of industry experience in computer architecture (ARM preferred), real‑time operating systems, C/ASM programming, and embedded software.
• Experience debugging real‑time embedded systems using JTAG or equivalent.
• Knowledge of compilers/linkers, Python scripting, and version control systems (Perforce/Git).
• Experience with hardware programming guides and driver/software development.
• Machine learning and agile development (Kanban) experience.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.