Sr Lead Engineer- Display
Qualcomm · Posted Oct 12
Semiconductor, 5G wireless technology, mobile platform, and AI computing solutions
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About the role
The Windows Display Team in Hyderabad works on display driver software for Windows-based Snapdragon platforms, covering design, development, integration, optimization, and commercialization. The role provides technical leadership across display bring-up, driver validation, performance tuning, and cross-functional collaboration spanning hardware, firmware, graphics, power, security, and validation teams. This Lead Engineer position owns moderately complex display-driver features and projects end to end while mentoring and driving root-cause analysis on new Snapdragon platforms.
What you will do
- Own moderately complex display-driver features or projects from requirements and architecture through implementation, validation, bring-up, and product delivery.
- Lead root-cause analysis of complex display issues across software, firmware, operating-system, and hardware boundaries; integrate and verify evidence from traces, logs, register dumps, and experiments.
- Drive display bring-up and stabilization on new Snapdragon platforms, including pre-silicon readiness, board bring-up, feature enablement, performance tuning, and commercialization support.
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, graphics, power, security, validation, system, and customer-engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Anticipate technical risks, communicate status and options clearly, and navigate ambiguity while meeting quality and schedule commitments.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 6+ years of relevant software engineering experience in embedded systems, device drivers, graphics/display, multimedia, or system software.
- Strong programming and debugging skills in C, with a solid understanding of data structures, concurrency, memory management, synchronization, and operating-system fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience developing or debugging kernel-mode or low-level device drivers on Windows, Linux, or another modern operating system.
- Experience debugging software on ARM-based SoCs or comparable embedded platforms using logs, traces, crash dumps, JTAG or hardware debuggers, and systematic fault isolation.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM), DirectX graphics infrastructure, Windows kernel concepts, WinDbg, ETW/WPP tracing, or Windows Hardware Lab Kit workflows.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a global leader in the development and commercialization of foundational technologies for the wireless industry, including mobile processors, 5G, and on-device artificial intelligence. The company designs and markets digital communications products, semiconductor solutions, and system software used globally across smartphones, automotive solutions, IoT devices, and computing systems. Through extensive R&D and intellectual property licensing, Qualcomm powers a highly interconnected and smarter world.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 50000+ employees
- Founded
- 1985
- Location
- San Diego, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $53M raised
- 2018-11-01Grant
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
James H. Thompson
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
Ann Chaplin
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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