Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Cloud Edge & Data Center Machine Learning)
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Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary:
Qualcomm’s new Data Center Business Unit (BU) is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the design, development, and commercialization of software/firmware solutions for Cloud Edge and Data Center machine learning (ML) use cases running on premium-tier high-performance silicon. You will work closely with internal and cross-functional teams and contribute to the advancement of critical technologies such as ML acceleration, process in memory, memory management and virtualization.
The candidate should have a background in embedded software development such as board support packages (BSP), device driver development, RTOS, secure boot, TrustZone technology, low-speed peripheral interfaces (I2C/SPI/UART), chipset power blocks, clock tree management, PCIe and efficient data movement using DMA.
Minimum Requirements
- 2+ years of work experience with low level C programming
- 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 & TrustZone 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
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiar with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX and Llama.cpp
- Familiar with interfaces such as PCIe, LPDDR, USB and UFS
- Familiar with implementing Reliability, Accessibility and Serviceability (RAS) through use of technologies such as ECC & PCI AER fields
- Familiar with low-speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, SPMI, AVSBus & PMBus
- Familiar working with software running on Qualcomm’s QuRT RTOS (ARM Cortex-A 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 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
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 Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
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Pay range
and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$117,800.00 - $176,600.00
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.
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- 987
- so far in FY2026
Filed titles like this role: hardware engineer · video systems hardware architecture engineer · hardware applications engineer · analog mixed signal design engineer
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- Still filing this year — 987 filings in FY2026
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- 22
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- 78
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