Firmware Engineer - Power Management & Embedded Systems

MaC VC; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 285,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA is seeking a CPU Power Management Firmware Developer to drive embedded firmware across pre- and post-silicon stages and to shape power management for Qualcomm CPUs.

You will collaborate with hardware and firmware teams, engage with open-source communities, and contribute to features across CPU subsystems, boot, RAS, and security. An opportunity to influence platform architecture exists.

Qualifications

• BS/BEng in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science (or equivalent) with 5 years of embedded firmware experience.
• Self-starter with technical leadership
• Proficient in writing and debugging C and assembly
• Driver development for RTOS or OS Kernel environments
• Experience with embedded OSes such as Zephyr, eCos, uC/OS or FreeRTOS
• Experience with pre-silicon environments including simulators and FPGA emulation
• Experience defining interprocessor communication interfaces between embedded controllers and the platform
• Familiarity with ARM v8 architecture; ARMV8 platform experience is a plus

Responsibilities

• Drive the firmware design, implementation and verification, in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
• Assist in the definition Power Management solutions for future generation of Qualcomm CPUs.
• Actively engage with open-source communities to contribute support for processor architectures, device drivers, and firmware features
• Assist in identifying skills requirements and in hiring engineers, collaborating with other teams on platform bring-up/debug/diags, firmware lifecycle, etc.

Skills

C

C++

Assembly

RTOS

Embedded OSes

ARMv8

IPC

Open-source

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Master's degree

PhD

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA is seeking a CPU Power Management Firmware Developer to drive embedded firmware across pre- and post-silicon stages and to shape power management for Qualcomm CPUs.

You will collaborate with hardware and firmware teams, engage with open-source communities, and contribute to features across CPU subsystems, boot, RAS, and security. An opportunity to influence platform architecture exists.