Company:

Qualcomm Semiconductor Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

General Summary:

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 SoC Platform Software Engineer, you will design and develop SoC Platform software solutions for Qualcomm IE-IOT SoC platforms, spanning Linux and RTOS environments, enabling high-performance, low-power, and real-time SoC Platform experiences in heterogeneous edge computing environments. Your work will support a broad range of applications, including surveillance, smart devices, retail systems, robotics, and edge AI in physical world systems, bridging deep technical knowledge with hands-on engineering execution to deliver robust, market-ready products.

Qualcomm SoC Platform Software Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess and advance the application of company products that meet and exceed customer needs.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, develop, and evaluate SoC Platform software solutions for Qualcomm IE-IOT SoC platforms, targeting Linux and RTOS environments for IoT, industrial, and edge computing applications.
• Implement and optimize SoC Platform software components including drivers, middleware, and application-layer modules to meet performance, power, and real-time requirements.
• Collaborate with internal or third-party partners to integrate, bring up, and validate SoC Platform software on Qualcomm IE-IOT SoC-based systems.
• Conduct detailed design and code reviews to ensure implementation meets performance, power efficiency, reliability, compliance, and cost requirements.
• Coordinate and perform specialized analyses (e.g., feasibility studies, performance profiling, memory footprint analysis) to verify software behavior across target platforms.
• Test and validate SoC Platform software on development systems to ensure functional correctness and compliance, and support issues triage and root cause analysis.
• Prepare and present technical documentation, design reviews, and execution status updates to stakeholders.
• Resolve architecture and design issues at the software and system level, and contribute to the bring-up and debug of SoC Platform software on new platforms.
• Participate in determining objectives of assignments and plan, schedule, and arrange own activities in accomplishing those objectives.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES:

(All competencies are required upon entry)

System Integration Platform

• Integrate Linux BSP, RTOS firmware, and hardware components on ARM-based SoCs.
• Enable end-to-end system bring-up from bootloader to application layer.
• Coordinate initialization sequences across bootloader, Linux kernel, RTOS, and firmware.
• Support secure boot flows, including verified boot and chain-of-trust bring-up.

System-Level Debugging

• Debug issues across HW/FW/OS boundaries including boot failures, crashes, hangs, and performance issues.
• Analyze system logs, crash dumps, and runtime traces to identify root causes.
• Use and enhance debugging, logging, and diagnostic frameworks.
• Support system profiling and performance analysis.

Bring-up & Validation

• Support board bring-up, feature enablement, and system validation.
• Work with hardware and firmware teams to investigate silicon or integration-related issues.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
  and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience
  OR
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
  and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience
  OR
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
• 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as
  C, C++, Python, or equivalent

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2+ years of experience in system integration, platform bring-up, or embedded Linux development.
• Strong understanding of ARM architecture and SoC integration.
• Experience integrating Linux with RTOS or firmware in multi-core or heterogeneous systems.
• Familiar with JTAG, ETM, ftrace, crash, kgdb, or similar debugging tools.
• Experience analyzing crash dumps, core dumps, or platform reset logs.
• Knowledge of performance profiling tools and system-level optimization.
• Ability to read hardware specifications and translate them into integration and debug activities.
• Experience working with cross-site or globally distributed teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• 1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with debugging techniques.

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