Qualcomm · 5 months ago
Embedded System Software Architect - Sr. Staff
San Diego, California, United States of America
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $244K/yr
5+ years expQualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a leading technology innovator focused on enabling next-generation experiences. The role involves designing, developing, and validating embedded and cloud edge software, collaborating with various teams to create system-level software solutions that meet customer needs.
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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
Drive embedded software stacks for complex SoCs with numerous types of cores, bus infrastructure, memories/caches
Enable state of the art Edge AI and other multimedia use cases with the best possible performance/power, as well as SDKs to enable customer/community development
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience
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
Operating Systems and multi-threaded programming
Hardware drivers
Developing, debugging, profiling, and optimizing for embedded real-time environments
Inter-processor communications
Excellent knowledge of ARM CPU architecture fundamentals and ARM ISA
Excellent understanding of CPU accelerator ISA for Vector/Matrix Data Processing
Performance Evaluation and Optimization of the applications for ARM architecture
Understanding of the typical Open Source Library framework design
Strong leadership skills to work across multiple-teams including System and HW to define the software architecture
Strong Analytical and debugging skills
Performance evaluation using QEMU, Simulators, Emulators and on Silicon
Benefits
Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
Opportunity for annual RSU grants
Highly competitive benefits package
Company
Qualcomm
Qualcomm designs wireless technologies and semiconductors that power connectivity, communication, and smart devices.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$3.5M1991-12-20IPO
1988-01-01Undisclosed· $3.5M
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