Sr. Embedded Software Engineer
Listed on 2026-10-03
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Embedded Software Engineer, C++ Developer, Embedded Systems/ Firmware/ IoT
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group >
Software Engineering General
Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs.
Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
- Proficient with development in C including debug and testing, preferably using GNU/LLVM tools, on embedded platforms using stop-mode debug tools such as JTAG/SWD
- Skilled with BSP development including device driver development, board bring-up, RTOS, secure boot design & Trust Zone architecture
- Experience with development and build tools for applications running within Embedded Linux environment
- Proficient with unit testing for C development
- Adept with RTOS fundamentals, SoC architecture (core, cache, memory, bus architecture, IOs, etc.), common hardware blocks and multi-threaded programming
- Experience with Source Code and Configuration management tools such as git/Gerrit
- Ability to work in a structured software development environment while contributing to novel designs
- Have willingness and flexibility to work as part of a high-caliber international/multi-site team
- Demonstrate excellent English communication skills (written and verbal) and positive interpersonal skills
- Familiar with PCIe, LPDDR, SMMU, SR-IOV
- Familiar with low-speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, SPMI, AVSBus & PMBus
- Familiar with implementing Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) through use of technologies such as ECC & PCI AER fields
- Familiar working with software running on RTOS (ARM/Risc-V CPUs and Hexagon DSPs)
- Familiar with on-chip Middleware for communication, logging and power control, including Qualcomm’s Core SW Infra (e.g., Glink, QDSS, SOC power control algorithms such as DVFS, DCVS)
- Experience OpenBMC and server management standards: IPMI, Redfish, PLDM, MCTP
- Experience working with microprocessor building blocks like microprocessor execution levels, interrupt controller & timers
- Software development and debug tools including compilers, profilers, source control systems, emulators, JTAG and serial debuggers, and logic analyzers
- Understanding of accelerator architectures, including compute engines, memory hierarchies, DMA engines, and host-device communication mechanisms
- Experience debugging performance bottlenecks across compute, memory, and I/O subsystems
- Design and implement firmware enabling scalable, topology-aware communication across AI accelerator deployments spanning SoC, card, server, rack
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