Engineer, Senior Staff/Manager-Platform Software Architect

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm Platform Software Architecture team falls under the Common Software Engineering organization catering cross business units, platforms, and technologies. This team works closely with the HW counter parts to define, evolve and sustain architectures that enables differentiating features for products at the minimum cost. Harmonization and re-use across products are the key theme.  The team collaborates across various SW and HW teams across the organization to gather requirements, provide architectural proposals and recommendations.

Platform Software Architect – Engineer, Senior Staff/Manager

• Creating, Evolving, Enhancing & Adapting of Software Architectural solutions for Qualcomm products
  • Focus: Platform – Boot, Reset, Debug, , Resource-Management, Workload-partitioning, Memory maps, Infra aspects such as NoC connectivity, Virtualization, Interrupts, timers etc.
• Primary focus on Server products (but not limited to)
• Providing assessment for features/changes by establishing systemic understanding
• Support power, performance, memory or other systemic KPI assessments
• Establish end-to-end data flows, impacts and risks
• Collaborate with multiple cross-functional technology arch and execution teams

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
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.

• 13 to 17+ years of experience in the embedded domain to design, develop and support software solutions on multi-core ARM/CPUs, Strong C/C++ programming skills.
• Embedded Platforms experience including low-level firmware, kernel and user-space components.
• Design and development of software for heterogeneous compute platforms consisting of ARMs, GPUs, DSPs, and specialized hardware accelerators in an embedded SoC systems with J-TAG or ICE debuggers
• Experience in real-time SW development for embedded products.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Server SoC-platform knowledge (Memory Controller, QoS, Buses, Peripherals, Boot, Debug, etc.)
• Hands on experience and/or sound knowledge on compute and server products, use cases, HW & SW work partitioning, end-to-end workflows (HW & SW), power & performance challenges
• SoC Power & Performance management knowledge
• Good SoC security & virtualization exposure
• Good exposure to overall SoC embedded SW (ARM v7/v8/v9 or other server-grade CPU knowledge is additional bonus)
• Experience in designing complex embedded System SW features
• Experience with Linux kernel device driver development, memory management SW
• Solid knowledge on CPU/MMU/Cache/IOMMU architecture & real-time OSes
• Experience with Embedded Software & Firmware development

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.

Applicants: 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 disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com 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).

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.

To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.