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Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

Software Engineer - Power and Limits Management

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Full-timeSan Diego, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field is required.
  • Preferred qualifications include 1 to 3 years of academic or industry experience with computer architecture, with ARM architecture preferred; real-time operating systems; C and assembly programming; debugging real-time embedded systems using JTAG or equivalent; compilers and linkers; Python scripting; reading hardware programming guides and writing drivers or software based on them; embedded software; machine learning; Agile development and Kanban; and version control systems such as Perforce or Git.
  • The role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, technical communication and interpersonal skills, attention to detail, self-motivation, and willingness to learn quickly.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze requirements, design software solutions, and ensure power efficiency for current and next-generation chipsets and processors across subsystems on the system-on-chip.
  • Analyze existing software and recommend improvements to performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, software/hardware partitioning, and new algorithms.
  • Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation, and debugging across system-on-chip components.
  • Participate in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs.
  • Identify opportunities for hardware acceleration and provide recommendations to the hardware team.
  • Develop firmware for memory- and CPU-constrained systems; analyze power software execution efficiency; manage performance and thermal efficiency tradeoffs; and address system-on-chip interactions among software components.
  • Work on machine learning using data sets spanning product architecture generations and work with high-level operating systems, such as Android, on application cores to meet end-to-end performance needs.

About the Company

Qualcomm

Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents

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, CA
Founded
1985

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