Software Engineer, Sr. Staff - Power and Limits Management

Qualcomm; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 146,400 - 219,600; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer in the Power and Limits management group to drive architecture for modern chipsets.

This role collaborates across system, power, software, and hardware teams to optimize performance and energy efficiency across SoCs. Candidates will influence pre-silicon evaluations, tooling, and sign-offs, with exposure to the full product life cycle from concept to commercialization and opportunities to apply ML approaches on data spanning

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.

Responsibilities

• Multiple aspects of software development - analyzing the requirements, designing robust software solutions, and ensuring that the power efficiency is met, for current and next generation chipsets to meet the growing product requirements on processors across various subsystems on the SoC
• Perform detailed analysis of the existing software to provide innovative recommendations to improve performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, new algorithms etc.
• Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation and debugging across all SOC components
• Involvement in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs
• Scope opportunities for HW acceleration by providing recommendations to the HW team

Skills

C

C++

Java

Python

Machine Learning

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

Perforce

Git

JTAG

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary

QCT Core Technologies is looking to hire talented engineers in the Power and Limits management software group. In this highly visible role, candidates will be working in a dynamic environment, interfacing across multiple disciplines including system, power, software, and hardware engineers to develop innovative architectures that meet the requirements of Qualcomm growing product portfolio. Candidates will be able to gain exposure to the full product life cycle from pre-silicon to commercialization of Qualcomm chipsets.

Job Responsibilities

• Multiple aspects of software development - analyzing the requirements, designing robust software solutions, and ensuring that the power efficiency is met, for current and next generation chipsets to meet the growing product requirements on processors across various subsystems on the SoC
• Perform detailed analysis of the existing software to provide innovative recommendations to improve performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, new algorithms etc.
• Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation and debugging across all SOC components
• Involvement in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs
• Scope opportunities for HW acceleration by providing recommendations to the HW team

Personal Attributes / Soft Skills

• Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with high expectations
• Passionate for building great products, with a willingness to disrupt the status quo and push boundaries to deliver innovations that affect the experience of millions of end users
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills
• Excellent technical communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and quick-learnerMeticulous attention to detail

Technical Domains

• Developing firmware for memory and CPU constrained systems
• Analyzing the execution efficiency of power software
• Managing the performance/thermal efficiency tradeoffs
• SOC level interactions between various software components
• Machine learning on data sets spanning across generations of product architectures
• IoE/IoT sectors, and
• Working with various HLOS (eg: Android) on application cores to meet end-to-end performance

Minimum 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.

Preferred Qualifications

10+ years of academic or industry experience in the following:

• Computer Architecture (ARM architecture preferred)
• Real Time Operating Systems
• C/ASM programming
• Debugging Real Time Embedded Systems using JTAG or equivalent
• Compilers / Linkers
• Python Scripting
• Ability to read hardware programming guides and write drivers/software based on that information
• Embedded software
• Machine Learning
• Agile development; Kanban
• Version control systems such as Perforce/Git

Pay Range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$146,400.00 - $219,600.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer.

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