Senior Connectivity Software Engineer

HP•San Francisco, CA

1d•$140,000 - $225,000

About The Position

HP IQ, HP’s AI innovation lab, is building intelligent technologies and an ecosystem of AI-enabled solutions across HP’s portfolio. The Connectivity team is seeking a Software Engineer with deep device-software expertise to develop, integrate, and optimize connectivity software. The role focuses on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and emerging device-to-device transport technologies, addressing performance, reliability, and low-latency communication challenges. The engineer will contribute to solutions that help people and devices connect seamlessly across modern enterprise environments. The position involves designing and delivering connectivity features across Android, Windows, and embedded platforms, including SDKs, frameworks, and system services. It also includes optimizing wireless networking protocols and sensing algorithms, developing peer-to-peer technologies, collaborating with chipset vendors and internal teams, and diagnosing complex wireless performance, interoperability, quality-of-service, and security issues in large-scale networks. HP IQ describes its work environment as flexible, with startup-like speed and autonomy backed by HP’s scale. The listed salary range is $140,000–$225,000. Full-time benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance; short- and long-term disability insurance; an employee assistance program; a flexible spending account; life insurance; and paid parental leave, holidays, vacation, and sick leave.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
6+ years of experience in device software development, including connectivity features, performance tuning, and debugging.
3+ years of experience developing software SDKs or frameworks on Android, Linux, or similar operating system platforms.
Strong programming skills in Java, C, C++, or Objective-C.
Solid grounding in software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, debugging, and system-level architecture.
Familiarity with radio standards such as 802.11 and Bluetooth, and understanding of related protocol stacks.
Experience collaborating across hardware, operating system, QA, and cross-functional engineering teams.
Ability to work independently, drive technical tasks to closure, and clearly communicate root-cause findings to senior leadership and partners.

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in C/C++ and embedded systems programming for performance-critical wireless features.
Strong understanding of peer-to-peer technologies and sensing techniques.
Experience working directly with wireless chipset vendors to optimize connectivity performance and resolve interoperability issues.
Comfort working across Linux, Windows, embedded systems, cloud-managed networks, and mobile operating system stacks.
Expertise in wireless performance analysis using tools such as Wireshark, logging frameworks, and low-level tracing.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and integrate connectivity software features across Android, Windows, and embedded platforms, including SDKs, frameworks, and system services.
Implement, optimize, and tune wireless networking protocols and sensing algorithms for enterprise-scale architectures and deployments.
Design, implement, and troubleshoot peer-to-peer technologies for secure, reliable, low-latency connectivity across diverse networking scenarios.
Collaborate with wireless chipset vendors, industry partners, and internal engineering teams to align designs, debug system-level issues, and optimize end-to-end connectivity performance.
Analyze and troubleshoot complex wireless behavior, including performance degradation, QoS bottlenecks, interoperability issues, and security constraints in large-scale networks.
Drive technical tasks to completion and communicate root-cause findings to senior leadership and partners.