Senior Embedded Firmware & Driver Engineer

QUALCOMM, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego area is seeking a Software Engineer to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software for automotive reference platforms.

You will work with hardware, silicon, and systems teams to enable bring-up, validation, and production test of high‑performance chipsets. The role emphasizes driver development, bare-metal firmware, and experience with ARM/RISC-V architectures, SPI, USB, PCIe, and other interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain bare-metal firmware and low-level device drivers to enable bring-up and validation of Qualcomm Automotive reference platforms.
• Perform early hardware bring-up and debug of new boards and chipsets, identifying issues across hardware, firmware, and system boundaries.
• Implement and extend test firmware used for platform validation, manufacturing test, and factory enablement.
• Collaborate closely with hardware design, silicon, systems, and validation teams to define requirements and resolve hardware/software integration issues.
• Analyze failures using schematics, register traces, logic analyzer data, and lab instrumentation, and drive issues to resolution.

Skills

Device driver development

Bare-metal software

C/C++ programming

Python

Java

Communication skills

Education

Bachelors degree in Engineering or related

Master's degree in Engineering or related

PhD in Engineering or related

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

JTAG debuggers

Lauterbach Trace32

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego area is seeking a Software Engineer to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software for automotive reference platforms.

You will work with hardware, silicon, and systems teams to enable bring-up, validation, and production test of high‑performance chipsets. The role emphasizes driver development, bare-metal firmware, and experience with ARM/RISC-V architectures, SPI, USB, PCIe, and other interfaces.