Qualcomm

Software Engineer, Staff - Power and Limits Management

Qualcomm$134K — $202K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of relevant experience, or Master's with 3+ years, or PhD with 2+ years.
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python.
  • 7-10 years of experience in computer architecture, preferably ARM architecture.
  • Experience with Real Time Operating Systems and debugging embedded systems.
  • Familiarity with machine learning and agile development methodologies.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze requirements and design robust software solutions for power efficiency in next-gen chipsets.
  • Optimize existing software for improved performance and power utilization.
  • Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation, and debugging.
  • Participate in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs.
  • Identify hardware acceleration opportunities and provide recommendations.

Benefits

  • Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
  • Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
  • Comprehensive benefits package designed to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

QCT Core Technologies is looking to hire talented engineers in the Power and Limits management software group. In this highly visible role, candidates will be working in a dynamic environment, interfacing across multiple disciplines including system, power, software, and hardware engineers to develop innovative architectures that meet the requirements of Qualcomm growing product portfolio. Candidates will be able to gain exposure to the full product life cycle from pre-silicon to commercialization of Qualcomm chipsets.

Job Responsibilities

As a Power and Limits software engineer, candidates will own or participate in one or more of the following:
  • Multiple aspects of software development - analyzing the requirements, designing robust software solutions, and ensuring that the power efficiency is met, for current and next generation chipsets to meet the growing product requirements on processors across various subsystems on the SoC
  • Perform detailed analysis of the existing software to provide innovative recommendations to improve performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, new algorithms etc.
  • Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation and debugging across all SOC components
  • Involvement in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs
  • Scope opportunities for HW acceleration by providing recommendations to the HW team


Personal Attributes / Soft Skills
  • Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with high expectations
  • Passionate for building great products, with a willingness to disrupt the status quo and push boundaries to deliver innovations that affect the experience of millions of end users
  • Strong analytic and problem solving skills
  • Excellent technical communication and interpersonal skills
  • Self-motivated and quick-learner
  • Meticulous attention to detail


Technical Domains

Product feature areas include, but are not limited to:
  • Developing firmware for memory and CPU constrained systems
  • Analyzing the execution efficiency of power software
  • Managing the performance/thermal efficiency tradeoffs
  • SOC level interactions between various software components
  • Machine learning on data sets spanning across generations of product architectures,
  • IoE/IoT sectors, and
  • Working with various HLOS (eg: Android) on application cores to meet end-to-end performance


Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

7 years to 10 years of academic or industry experience in the following:
  • Computer Architecture (ARM architecture preferred)
  • Real Time Operating Systems
  • C/ASM programming
  • Debugging Real Time Embedded Systems using JTAG or equivalent
  • Compilers / Linkers
  • Python Scripting
  • Ability to read hardware programming guides and write drivers/software based on that information
  • Embedded software
  • Machine Learning
  • Agile development; Kanban
  • Version control systems such as Perforce/Git


Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$134,800.00 - $202,200.00

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.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm Ventures is the investment arm of Qualcomm Incorporated. Founded in 2000, Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture capital fund with over 150 active portfolio companies and more than 20 exits over a billion dollars, including 99 Taxis, Cruise Automation, Fitbit, Invensense, NQ Mobile, Waze, and more. As a global investor, Qualcomm Ventures helps connect entrepreneurs to the resources, relationships, and deep industry expertise they need to succeed in the mobile technology ecosystem.

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1985
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