Embedded Senior Software Engineer
Qualcomm
Embedded Senior Software Engineer
Qualcomm
Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents
General Summary:
Job Description:
Exciting opportunity to join Qualcomm’s Core Peripherals Storage team. This team delivers storage drivers, filesystems, and tools for Qualcomm SoCs, supporting advanced flash technologies including UFS, NVMe, SD Express, eMMC, NAND, and NOR.
This role is for a Senior Engineer focused on developing storage drivers and software modules across the storage stack, including bootloaders, UEFI, Windows HLOS, and Linux user space. You will work with filesystems such as FAT (bootloader) and LittleFS (Zephyr RTOS), and contribute to storage flashing tools for both development and factory environments.
The position also involves developing PC tools for image creation (FAT, GPT), flash provisioning (e.g., UFS), and supporting proprietary Qualcomm filesystems (e.g., EFS) and modem image modules (MPSS, ADSP, CDSP, SLPI). Additionally, you will build and maintain Linux user-space tools for storage testing and validation.
Main Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain storage drivers and Qualcomm proprietary filesystem modules for modem processors and Linux-based Qualcomm SoCs.
Work on Linux kernel components including storage drivers, filesystem modules, block drivers, and memory subsystems.
Optimize storage and memory performance for runtime efficiency and power consumption.
Support product commercialization by debugging and resolving kernel-level issues reported by customers and flash vendor partners.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, open-source software and Linux community
Contribute to and engage with the upstream Linux kernel community to design and implement new storage and memory features.
Support expansion into new markets beyond mobile, including automotive, home entertainment, and embedded computing.
We are looking for:
4+ years of experience in embedded software
Excellent programming skills and expert level knowledge of C is a must. Python knowledge is a plus.
Expertise in Linux kernel programming, device driver development, and kernel internals (memory management, scheduling and device driver development)
Experience with Linux filesystem modules such as F2FS, EXT4, EROFS will be plus.
Should have good kernel and user space debugging skill, debugging using JTAG or ICE debuggers
Good understanding of basic real-time/embedded programming concepts & real time operating systems concepts
Familiarity with ARM architecture and HW level debugging a plus
Good analytical and problem-solving skills
Must have great inter-personal communication skills
Where you will be working
Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.
Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.
What's on Offer
Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:
Salary, stock and performance related bonus
Maternity/Paternity Leave
Employee stock purchase scheme
Matching pension scheme
Education Assistance
Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
Bicycle purchase scheme
Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.
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Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon processors and modems inside many Android phones, and it licenses its wireless patents to device makers around the world. It helped commercialize CDMA, the cellular technology behind 3G networks, and its patents cover core parts of the 4G and 5G standards that phones use to connect. The company does not run its own chip factories; contract foundries make its chips, which it sells to makers of phones, PCs, cars, and connected devices. Device makers also pay Qualcomm royalties for using its patented technology, which forms a second business alongside chip sales. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.
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