Senior Embedded Audio Software Engineer

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

In short

Qualcomm is looking for a Senior Embedded Audio Software Engineer in San Diego to design and develop cutting-edge audio software for Snapdragon processors. This role involves technical leadership, requirements analysis, and collaboration within international teams to ensure high-performance, low-latency, and stable audio solutions for a wide range of smart devices.

Responsibilities

Technically lead software design and development of embedded audio software.
Meet specified performance, latency, power, robustness, and stability metrics.
Perform high-level requirements analysis, deriving engineering requirements and producing documentation.
Troubleshoot and maintain software applications, frameworks, and drivers.
Manage priorities, monitor progress, and take corrective actions for tasks.
Communicate software development status, including mitigations to issues and risks.
Collaborate effectively within and across teams to influence behavior and negotiate desired outcomes.
Exercise critical thinking to formulate requirements, solve problems, and define steps for ambiguous tasks.
Identify new and innovate existing processes, procedures, or work products.
Participate in and contribute to strategic, development, and deployment team planning activities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering experience.
OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering experience.
OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
4+ years of Embedded Software development with relevant industry experience.
Excellent C/C++ programming, Python and other scripting language skills with proven experience of writing efficient code for embedded systems and multi-threaded environments.
Knowledge of software design patterns and multi-threaded programming.
Knowledge of computer architecture, real-time operating systems, data structures, and basic algorithms.
Understanding of power, memory and performance considerations on embedded systems.
Expertise in Multimedia or Audio software framework design and development.
Expertise in embedded driver development and debugging.
Expertise in use of various debug tools and techniques.
Experience in optimization techniques for memory and performance.
Expertise developing and debugging software on ARM/DSP, or other embedded, processors and SoCs.

Benefits

Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.
Possibility to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer with your recruiter.
More details about US benefits available at a link.