Framework Developer Engineer
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Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
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Software EngineeringEmbedded Engineering
About the job
Requirements
- Good knowledge and understanding of embedded software architecture and content development in C/C++ for validation purposes.
- Working knowledge of ARMv8, ARMv9, x86, and RISC-V CPU architectures; interrupt handling; cache and I/O coherency; and SoC architectures with complex SMP or heterogeneous cores.
- Understanding of memory management techniques, including weakly ordered memory models, pipelining of memory systems, and memory barriers.
- Working knowledge of software build toolchains comprising compilers, Makefiles, linker files, and scatter files.
- Experience optimizing code and efficiently resolving linker issues.
- Experience using JTAG interfaces and debug tools to analyze hardware.
- At least 5 years of hands-on silicon validation and embedded software development experience on modern CPU and SoC architectures.
- Proficiency in C/C++ coding and familiarity with assembly, VHDL/Verilog, and scripting languages such as Python or Perl.
- Understanding of mobile chip and/or server architecture, including CPU, GPU, DDR, networks-on-chip, and peripherals, and systematic debug and root-cause techniques for low-level software/hardware issues.
- Ability to use lab equipment for testing and validation, including logic analyzers and oscilloscopes.
- Experience with debug tools including JTAG and kernel debuggers such as Lauterbach Trace32.
- Good written and spoken communication skills.
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer and/or Electrical Engineering.
- Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience; OR Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 3+ years of such experience; OR PhD in Science, Engineering, or a related field and 2+ years of such experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and debug system/IP validation frameworks for bare-metal and lightweight RTOS environments used by global core teams for SoC validation activities.
- Understand the latest Snapdragon SoC architecture and design features, and ensure SVE infrastructure supports core teams in achieving planned hardware validation goals.
- Interface with IP validation and cross-functional design, verification, and software teams to understand and debug complex issues and enable SVE test infrastructure in emulation and post-silicon environments.
- Enable new framework test flows, such as MBIST testing in high-volume production screening.
Desired Qualifications
- Previous hands-on software boot loader design and debug experience is highly preferred.
- Exposure to a broad range of SoC architecture concepts, including interconnects, power management, and inter-processor communication techniques.
- Knowledge of operating systems, RTOS, and Linux kernel internals; multithreading; scheduling policies; locking mechanisms; virtual memory; and MMU.
- Working knowledge of compilers and linkers such as GCC, Clang, RVDS, and LLVM.
- Experience bringing up hardware/software solutions on FPGA or emulation platforms and on new SoC designs.
- Exposure to build automation tools such as Jenkins and experience creating automated processes to streamline development.
- Exposure to regression testing, including available methodologies and tools, and ability to design, implement, and execute comprehensive software quality and stability test suites.
- Preferred: Master's degree in Computer and/or Electrical Engineering.
About the company
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.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Diego, California
Founded
1985
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What believers are saying
- Cars are a second engine: automotive chip revenue rose 61% to $1.59 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
- Pays for learning: Qualcomm funds tuition assistance and apprenticeships and sells staff discounted shares through a stock purchase plan.
- Profits support stability: Qualcomm earned $2.21 non-GAAP per share in the June 2026 quarter despite a 4% sales dip.
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- Apple is walking away: Qualcomm expects Apple revenue to fall about 50% from the September to December 2026 quarter.
- Data-center deals start thin: in July 2026, management said custom chips will cut chip gross margin 1.5 to 2 points.
- Cuts keep trickling: Qualcomm filed WARN notices in April 2026 covering 144 layoffs, including 68 in San Diego.
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- Phones are only part of it: handsets were $5.09 billion of $8.50 billion chip revenue in fiscal Q3 2026.
- Cloud giants buy its custom chips: two hyperscaler design wins start producing revenue in the December 2026 quarter.
- It owns an AI software layer: Qualcomm completed its Modular acquisition in July 2026 for open generative AI software.
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Benefits
- Premium-free health coverage
- Onsite health & fitness centers
- Retirement programs
- Disability & life insurance programs
- Tuition reimbursement
- Product discounts
- Flexible time off
- Parental leave