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Software Engineer, Sr - Power and Limits Management

san diego, CA

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Qualcomm lists this Software Engineer, Sr - Power and Limits Management opportunity in san diego, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.

Job description

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-learner

Meticulous 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 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

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

2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$117,800.00 - $176,600.00

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, please note that 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.

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Worksite address

san diego, CA, 92189, US

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