Senior Embedded Debug Engineer - Linux & RTOS

Socket.dev; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Engineer to strengthen the Product Debug team, ensuring software stability on Qualcomm SoCs from pre-silicon validation to commercialization.

You will leverage Linux fundamentals, embedded experience, and advanced debugging to tackle complex issues. You will use JTAG, ETM, Trace32, and GDB to investigate root causes, while collaborating with hardware, software, and test teams to triage issues and optimize performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in Engineering/CS with software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in C/C++ with strong debugging skills.
• Experience with Linux kernel internals, device drivers, or RTOS fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve stability issues across multi-processor Linux/multi-RTOS environments.
• Analyze timing issues in RTOS and Linux applications and contribute to performance optimization.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, test, and customer engineering teams for issue triage.
• Contribute to debugging process improvements through automation scripts and documentation.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Linux

Embedded systems

GDB

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

JTAG

ETM

Trace32

GDB

Oscilloscopes

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks a Senior Engineer to strengthen the Product Debug team, ensuring software stability on Qualcomm SoCs from pre-silicon validation to commercialization.

You will leverage Linux fundamentals, embedded experience, and advanced debugging to tackle complex issues. You will use JTAG, ETM, Trace32, and GDB to investigate root causes, while collaborating with hardware, software, and test teams to triage issues and optimize performance.