Software Engineer, Staff - Power and Limits Management

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

3d

About The Position

QCT Core Technologies is looking to hire talented engineers in the Power and Limits management software group. In this highly visible role, candidates will be working in a dynamic environment, interfacing across multiple disciplines including system, power, software, and hardware engineers to develop innovative architectures that meet the requirements of Qualcomm growing product portfolio. Candidates will be able to gain exposure to the full product life cycle from pre-silicon to commercialization of Qualcomm chipsets.
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Job Responsibilities
As a Power and Limits software engineer, candidates will own or participate in one or more of the following:
Multiple aspects of software development - analyzing the requirements, designing robust software solutions, and ensuring that the power efficiency is met, for current and next generation chipsets to meet the growing product requirements on processors across various subsystems on the SoC
Perform detailed analysis of the existing software to provide innovative recommendations to improve performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, new algorithms etc.
Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation and debugging across all SOC components
Involvement in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs
Scope opportunities for HW acceleration by providing recommendations to the HW team
Personal Attributes / Soft Skills
Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with high expectations
Passionate for building great products, with a willingness to disrupt the status quo and push boundaries to deliver innovations that affect the experience of millions of end users
Strong analytic and problem solving skills
Excellent technical communication and interpersonal skills
Self-motivated and quick-learner
Meticulous attention to detail
Technical Domains
Product feature areas include, but are not limited to:
Developing firmware for memory and CPU constrained systems
Analyzing the execution efficiency of power software
Managing the performance/thermal efficiency tradeoffs
SOC level interactions between various software components
Machine learning on data sets spanning across generations of product architectures,
IoE/IoT sectors, and
Working with various HLOS (eg: Android) on application cores to meet end-to-end performance

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with high expectations
• Passionate for building great products, with a willingness to disrupt the status quo and push boundaries to deliver innovations that affect the experience of millions of end users
• Strong analytic and problem solving skills
• Excellent technical communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-motivated and quick-learner
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Developing firmware for memory and CPU constrained systems
• Analyzing the execution efficiency of power software
• Managing the performance/thermal efficiency tradeoffs
• SOC level interactions between various software components
• Machine learning on data sets spanning across generations of product architectures,
• IoE/IoT sectors, and
• Working with various HLOS (eg: Android) on application cores to meet end-to-end performance

Nice To Haves

• 7 years to 10 years of academic or industry experience in the following:
• Computer Architecture (ARM architecture preferred)
• Real Time Operating Systems
• C/ASM programming
• Debugging Real Time Embedded Systems using JTAG or equivalent
• Compilers / Linkers
• Python Scripting
• Ability to read hardware programming guides and write drivers/software based on that information
• Embedded software
• Machine Learning
• Agile development; Kanban
• Version control systems such as Perforce/Git

Responsibilities

• Multiple aspects of software development - analyzing the requirements, designing robust software solutions, and ensuring that the power efficiency is met, for current and next generation chipsets to meet the growing product requirements on processors across various subsystems on the SoC
• Perform detailed analysis of the existing software to provide innovative recommendations to improve performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, new algorithms etc.
• Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation and debugging across all SOC components
• Involvement in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs
• Scope opportunities for HW acceleration by providing recommendations to the HW team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level