Senior Staff Engineer, Server CPU Software Test Engineer

Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:
Engineering Group >
Software Engineering

General

Summary:

Hiring for Staff/Sr. Staff/Principal levels in various Qualcomm office locations in the US.

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.

• Create software/firmware test plans, addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage, with respect to feature requirements.
• Design, develop, execute and maintain automated software/firmware test suites for the purpose of verifying quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration and system levels.
• Manually test, where appropriate, the customer experience of installation and deployment of Qualcomm hardware and software in a mobile, compute and automotive environment.
• Assist in the creation of a Quality Engineering/Release engineering process with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Assist in achieving production‑level software readiness, implement customer use‑cases, workload analysis models, workload creation, and collaborate with other teams on bring‑up/debug/diags.
• Focus on ensuring that existing Operating Systems and customer usage environments run well, while identifying strong opportunities for enhancements from a power and performance perspective.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

• 8+ years of experience in Software/Firmware Validation.
• Demonstrated software test engineering in SW/FW engineering with focus on Data Center Servers (minimum 5 years).
• Strong understanding and experience in software/firmware test automation techniques.
• Extensive experience working with operating systems like Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, similar or Windows server.
• Work with multiple SW/HW Engineering teams to ensure all requirements and features of reference platform requirements have been validated at component, integration, functional and system levels.
• Strong programming skills with experience in C and/or Python programming languages.
• Experience developing automated software/firmware test cases for server platforms, supporting bring‑up and production SW releases.

• Prior experience with SW/FW integration at BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, Operating System for x86/ARM
  64/RISC‑V 64bit for server platforms.
• Strong understanding of Server firmware Standards, open source implementation and specifications for ARM
  64‑based servers.

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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, salary is only one component of total compensation  also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants. In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and r 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.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process for individuals with disabilities. For accommodations, email disability‑

EEO

Employer:

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.