Job Title Power and Limits Software Engineer
Company Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
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 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Preferred Qualifications 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 $146,400.00 - $219,600.00
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.