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Qualcomm · 1 month ago

Platform SW Engineer, Automotive

San Diego, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$94K/yr - $141K/yr

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a leading technology innovator in the automotive industry, focusing on advancements in connected car technologies. The company is seeking a Platform Software Engineer to contribute to the development of next-generation automotive solutions by understanding software product requirements and integrating them with specific hardware blocks or sub-systems.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AISoftwareTelecommunicationsWireless

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs

Collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces

Lead the development, debugging, and customer interactions for various platform software drivers and modules

Qualification

Embedded software developmentC programmingARM based systemsSoftware designDevelopmentAutomotive SW standardsHW debugging with JTAGOS fundamentalsAnalytical reasoningLogical reasoning

Required

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Preferred

Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Exposure to automotive SW development processes and standards (e.g., ASPCE, ISO26262 and ISO21434)

Knowledge of interaction types between hardware and software for different types of standard hardware blocks, CPU, and accelerators

Experience in software design and development for software layers found in SoCs (e.g., boot, drivers, embedded firmware, security, safety, kernels (Linux, QNX, SafeRTOS))

Software experience in embedded software development for ARM based systems

C programming, HW debugging with JTAG, OS fundamentals, analytical and logical reasoning

Benefits

Competitive annual discretionary bonus program

Opportunity for annual RSU grants

Highly competitive benefits package

Company

Qualcomm

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Qualcomm designs wireless technologies and semiconductors that power connectivity, communication, and smart devices.

Founded in 1985

San Diego, California, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.qualcomm.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$3.5M

1991-12-20IPO

1988-01-01Undisclosed· $3.5M

Leadership Team

Cristiano Amon

President & CEO

Isaac Eteminan

CEO

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