Staff Engineer, Data Centre Software Test Engineer (Server)
Qualcomm · Posted Oct 16
Semiconductor, 5G wireless technology, mobile platform, and AI computing solutions
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About the role
Qualcomm's Engineering Group (Software Engineering) develops embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and specialized utility programs that power cutting-edge products, collaborating with systems, hardware, architecture, and test teams. This Staff Engineer role is focused on Data Centre server software/firmware test engineering, covering test plans, requirements traceability, and automated test suites that validate quality and compliance at functional, integration, and system levels. The engineer will also support production-level software readiness, customer use-cases, workload analysis, and bring-up/debug on server platforms such as Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, and Windows Server across x86/ARM64/RISC-V.
What you will do
- Create software/firmware test plans, addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage, with respect to feature requirements
- Design, develop, execute and maintain automated software/firmware test suites for the purpose of verifying quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration and system levels
- Manually test, where appropriate, the customer experience of installation and deployment of Qualcomm hardware and software in a mobile, compute and automotive environment.
- Assist in the creation of a Quality Engineering/Release engineering process with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment
- Assist in achieving production-level software readiness, implement customer use-cases, workload analysis models, workload creation, and collaborating with other teams on bring-up/debug/diags
- Focus on ensuring that existing Operating Systems and customer usage environments run well, while identifying strong opportunity for enhancements, from a power and performance perspective.
- Leverages advanced Software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
- Analyzes user needs, software requirements, and time and cost constraints to design and customize software for optimal operational efficiency.
- Designs and implements software modules for large-scale products and systems.
- Participates in and leads design, coding, unit testing, debugging, and integration efforts to ensure projects are completed to specifications and schedules.
- Performs complex code reviews and regression tests as well as triages and fixes issues to ensure the quality of code.
- Collaborates with individuals outside the software function (e.g., Hardware, Systems, and Test engineers) to ensure solutions work with other components of a specific project.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Preferred qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Software/Firmware Validation
- Demonstrated software test engineering in SW/FW engineering with focus on Data Center Servers (minimum 5 years).
- Strong understanding and experience in software/firmware test automation techniques
- Extensive experience working with operating systems like Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, similar or Windows server
- Work with multiple SW/HW Engineering teams to ensure that all requirements and features of reference platform requirements have been validated at a component, integration, functional and system level
- Strong programming skills with experience in C and/or Python programming languages
- Experience developing automated software/firmware test cases for server platforms, supporting bring-up and production SW releases
- Prior Experience with SW/FW integration at BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, Operating System for x86/ARM64/RISC-V 64bit for server platforms.
- Strong understanding of Server firmware Standards, opensource Implementation and specifications for ARM64-based servers
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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