Staff Engineer
Qualcomm · Posted Oct 28
Semiconductor, 5G wireless technology, mobile platform, and AI computing solutions
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About the role
Qualcomm India's Software Engineering Group works on platform software for next-generation SoC products, spanning Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, DSP, GPU, modem, connectivity, power management, and AI-enabled systems. The role is a hands-on technical leadership position driving platform bring-up, subsystem integration, system optimization, and cross-functional issue resolution. It also involves mentoring engineers, owning program execution, and serving as a technical interface to customers and internal stakeholders.
What you will do
- Lead platform bring-up, subsystem integration, and software enablement across multiple product programs.
- Drive root-cause analysis and resolution of complex issues spanning hardware, firmware, kernel, middleware, and application layers.
- Own delivery of critical platform capabilities and subsystem features.
- Optimize platform behavior across power, performance, memory, thermal, reliability, and user experience metrics.
- Lead investigations involving CPU, DSP, GPU, memory, storage, interconnects, clocks, regulators, thermal management, and connectivity subsystems.
- Drive customer issue resolution and support key product milestones.
- Partner with silicon, firmware, software, validation, and product teams to deliver scalable platform solutions.
- Provide technical leadership across Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, DSP, GPU, modem, connectivity, PMIC, power management, and AI/ML accelerators.
- Drive architecture discussions and technical trade-offs across performance, power, cost, schedule, reliability, and product requirements.
- Lead system-level debugging using instrumentation, tracing, profiling, and cross-subsystem analysis.
- Establish best practices for observability, performance analysis, and reliability engineering.
- Mentor engineers on architecture, debugging methodologies, and software engineering practices.
- Champion AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity and software quality.
- Own execution of subsystem and platform-level deliverables.
- Drive technical planning, risk assessment, and mitigation activities.
- Coordinate execution across software, firmware, validation, and hardware teams.
- Lead critical bug triage, readiness reviews, and commercialization efforts.
- Provide technical status, execution updates, and risk assessments to leadership.
- Provide day-to-day technical leadership for engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers and support technical growth and career development.
- Drive engineering excellence through design reviews, code reviews, and debugging best practices.
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Support hiring and onboarding of engineering talent.
- Serve as a key technical interface for customers and internal stakeholders.
- Lead customer debugging sessions, technical reviews, and escalation management.
- Partner with product and program teams to align technical and business priorities.
- Communicate technical risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to leadership and customers.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.
- Experience in embedded systems, BSP, RTOS, Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, firmware, kernel, or platform software engineering.
- Strong expertise in platform architecture, subsystem integration, debugging, and performance optimization.
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Strong C/C++ programming skills.
- 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
- Deep understanding of modern SoCs including DSP, GPU, modem, Wi-Fi, connectivity, PMIC, power management, and AI accelerator subsystems.
- Experience with Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, heterogeneous computing, subsystem integration, and performance optimization.
- Expertise in platform bring-up, power optimization, performance tuning, crash analysis, and reliability engineering.
- Strong understanding of profiling, tracing, observability, and advanced debugging methodologies.
- Experience leading customer-facing debug activities and product escalations.
- Hands-on use of AI-assisted engineering tools including Claude Code, Claude CLI, GitHub Copilot, MCP agents, and automated engineering 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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