Staff Engineer - Embedded System Software

Qualcomm’s Central Software Engineering (CSE) team is seeking candidates for its Neural Signal Processor (NSP) System software team in Bangalore. We are seeking candidates with strong system software knowledge and hands-on experience in development, integrate, commercialize and maintenance of system software for CPU, NSP processors and Hardware engines/accelerators comprising in Qualcomm SoCs that meets specified performance, latency, power, robustness, and stability metrics. In this role you will utilize your solid foundation in embedded system software development, operating systems, and device drivers to deploy platform software for complex Multimedia and Deep Learning use cases running on Qualcomm SoCs. Partnering with hardware architecture, platform software, Multimedia, and developer tools teams, you will drive the architecture, design, and development of system software to use SoCs extensive heterogeneous computing capabilities to allow running of compute workloads on device without a need for connection to the cloud for Mobile, Auto, IoT, XR and/or AI inferencing Qualcomm SOCs platforms.

Must Have

• Architect, design, and develop software frameworks across SoC processors
• Develop high-performance system drivers for compute resources
• Identify areas for performance optimization in SoC software and hardware
• Integrate, test, and commercially support embedded software solutions
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Python
• 8+ years experience in scalable C/C++ multi-threaded, multi-process software for embedded OS (Android/Linux/QNX)
• Experience in system programming, threading, mutex, synchronization, communication, and parallel computing
• Deep understanding of CPU, DSP, Deep Learning Accelerators (NSP/NPU) architectures and optimization
• Experience with ARM and NSP/Hardware engines Inter-processor communications using RPCs
• Familiarity with system analysis tools for memory, performance, and hardware resource management
• Experience with build systems such as CMake, Make, ninja, and Yocto
• Familiarity with source control tools (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Perforce)
• Understanding of PCIE protocol and software transport layer
• Experience in writing documents on software design, algorithms, and interfaces

Perks & Benefits

• World-class health benefit options for employees and dependents
• Programs to build and prepare for a financially secure future
• Self and family resources for emotional/mental strength and resilience
• Wellbeing programs and resources to Live+Well and Work+Well
• Continuous learning and development programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mentorships

Job Description

Job Posting Date

2025-11-15

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Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm’s Central Software Engineering (CSE) team is seeking candidates for its Neural Signal Processor (NSP) System software team in Bangalore. We are seeking candidates with strong system software knowledge and hands-on experience in development, integrate, commercialize and maintenance of system software for CPU, NSP processors and Hardware engines/accelerators comprising in Qualcomm SoCs that meets specified performance, latency, power, robustness, and stability metrics. In this role you will utilize your solid foundation in embedded system software development, operating systems, and device drivers to deploy platform software for complex Multimedia and Deep Learning use cases running on Qualcomm SoCs. Partnering with hardware architecture, platform software, Multimedia, and developer tools teams, you will drive the architecture, design, and development of system software to use SoCs extensive heterogeneous computing capabilities to allow running of compute workloads on device without a need for connection to the cloud for Mobile, Auto, IoT, XR and/or AI inferencing Qualcomm SOCs platforms.

Responsibilities may Include, but are not limited to,

The selected candidate will have responsibilities in one or more of the following areas:

• ### Architect, design and develop software frameworks across the processors available on the SoCs.
• ### Develop high-performance system drivers for compute resources.
• ### Identify areas of performance optimization in the SoC for both Software and Hardware architectures
• ### Work closely with our global team to integrate, test, and commercially support our embedded software solutions.
• ### Offsite and occasional onsite work with OEMs and Independent Software Vendors may be required

Required Skills/Experience

• ### Strong programming skills in C/C++, and Python.
• ### 8+ years of experience in writing scalable C/C++ multi-threaded, multi-process software applications for Android/Embedded Linux/ QNX operating systems.
• ### Experience in system programming, threading, mutex, synchronization, communication, and parallel computing to build highly scalable and efficient applications
• ### Deep understanding of CPU, DSP, Deep Learning Accelerators (NSP/NPU) architectures, system programming and optimization of Multimedia/ML algorithms on hardware acceleration cores using C/C++, assembly language, OpenCL/CUDA programming frameworks.
• ### Experience with ARM and NSP/Hardware engines Inter-processor communications using RPCs
• ### Familiarity and hands-on experience with various system analysis tools used for memory, performance and hardware resource management for optimization and stability
• ### Experience with build systems such as CMake, Make, ninja and Yocto for large scale software.
• ### Familiarity with source control tools (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Perforce, etc.)
• ### Understanding of PCIE protocol and software transport layer implemented over it

Experience in writing documents on software design, algorithms, and interfaces

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.

• Required: Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science, software engineering or closely related discipline with 8-10yrs of relevant work experience
• Preferred: Master's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science, software engineering or closely related discipline with minimum 8yrs of relevant work experience