Firmware Development Engineer, Sr. Staff

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Embedded Systems

In short

Qualcomm is seeking a Sr. Staff Firmware Development Engineer to drive firmware design, implementation, and verification for their custom CPUs. This role involves working with embedded OSes, C/assembly programming, and contributing to power management solutions. A BS/BEng in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science with 5 years of embedded firmware development experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Drive the firmware design, implementation and verification, in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
Assist in the definition Power Management solutions for future generation of Qualcomm CPUs.
Actively engage with open-source communities to contribute support for processor architectures, device drivers, and firmware features.
Assist in identifying skills requirements and in hiring engineers, collaborating with other teams on platform bring-up/debug/diags, firmware lifecycle, etc.
Work with a team on the enablement of the power management solution for Qualcomm's custom CPUs.
Collaborate internally to help define and implement embedded firmware to manage the power and performance for the CPU subsystem within Qualcomm SoCs across many verticals.
Participate in various other aspects of the management controller firmware development, including power management, boot, RAS, debug, security and runtime services.

Requirements

BS/BEng in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science (or equivalent professional experience) with 5 years' experience in embedded firmware development
Proficient writing and debugging C and assembly
Driver development experience in RTOS or OS Kernel environments
Demonstrated development experience with embedded OSes such as Zephyr, eCos, uC/OS or FreeRTOS
Experience developing for pre-silicon environments including simulators and FPGA emulation
Experience defining interprocessor communication interfaces between embedded controllers and the platform
Familiarity with ARM v8 architecture.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
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.

Desired Qualifications

Self-starter who takes initiative and brings technical leadership
Experience developing for pre-silicon environments including simulators and FPGA emulation
Development experience for a ARMV8 platform is a plus.

Benefits

Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
Opportunity for annual RSU grants
Highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.

Skills

CassemblyZephyreCosuC/OSFreeRTOSARM v8PythonJavaC++

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