Engineer Lead-MMDisplay

Job Posting Date

2025-10-06

General Summary:

The display software team is looking for talented software engineers interested in designing and developing software for mobile and embedded devices. The display software team is responsible for delivering device driver, firmware, and tools for Snapdragon chipsets, providing best in class performance, power and features. This role will involve working on the firmware development for Display. Responsibilities will include the design and development of new features, support for new hardware pre/post-silicon development, debugging of issues within software, optimizing software for performance and power, development of unit tests and working with our partners and OEMs. In addition, they will be working with other technologies including video encoders, video decoders, DSPs, and GPU for QC multimedia cores towards meeting project milestones.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Detail oriented with strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to dissect larger problems and solving challenges through process of elimination.
• Effective interpersonal communication skills (written and verbal).
• Strong working knowledge of C/C++ programming
• Experience in the embedded domain, designing, developing, and supporting software solutions on multi-core ARM/CPUs.
• Motivated to learn new technologies and skills related to image processing and hardware acceleration.
• Knowledge in one or more Operating Systems (or) RTOS (Embedded Linux, Windows)
• Strong working knowledge of Linux Kernel.
• Experienced in Linux kernel architecture and driver development, such as signals, priorities, deadlocks, stacks, interrupt, memory management, scheduler, synchronization methods, etc.
• Understanding of low level software/hardware interface design and debugging
• Basic understanding of ARM and RISC-V architecture and instructions.
• Well versed with debugging with J-TAG.
• Knowledge in one or more of the following disciplines is preferred: Display (Pixel processing/composition, MIPI DSI, HDMI, DisplayPort, etc.),
• Experience in the following Display/Graphics Frameworks and platforms: Android, Weston/Wayland and KMS/DRM Driver

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 9+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

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

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