Sr. Staff CPU Software Test Engineer

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

2d • $169,800 - $254,600

About The Position

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Staff CPU Software Test Engineer in its Engineering Group. The role involves designing, developing, executing, and maintaining software and firmware test plans and automated test suites to verify the quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration, and system levels. The engineer will address requirements traceability and test coverage, and manually test customer installation and deployment experiences across mobile, compute, and automotive environments when appropriate.

The position supports production-level software readiness, customer use cases, workload analysis and creation, and collaboration with other teams on platform bring-up, debugging, and diagnostics. It also contributes to quality and release engineering processes, with an emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment. A key focus is ensuring existing operating systems and customer usage environments work well while identifying opportunities to improve power and performance.

Qualcomm describes its software engineers as collaborating with systems, hardware, architecture, test, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and address performance requirements and interfaces. The posted salary range is $169,800 to $254,600. Qualcomm also mentions a competitive annual discretionary bonus program, the opportunity for annual RSU grants, and a competitive benefits package.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field and 6 or more years of Software Engineering or related work experience; OR a master's degree in one of these fields and 5 or more years of related experience; OR a PhD in one of these fields and 4 or more years of related experience.
• 3 or more years of work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.

Nice To Haves

• 8 or more years of experience in software or firmware validation.
• At least 5 years of software test engineering experience in software/firmware engineering focused on data center servers.
• Strong understanding and experience with software and firmware test automation techniques.
• Extensive experience with operating systems such as Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, similar systems, or Windows Server.
• Experience working with multiple software and hardware engineering teams to validate reference-platform requirements and features at component, integration, functional, and system levels.
• Strong programming skills and experience with C and/or Python.
• Experience developing automated software and firmware test cases for server platforms, supporting bring-up and production software releases.
• Prior experience with software/firmware integration involving BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, and operating systems for x86, ARM64, or RISC-V 64-bit server platforms.
• Strong understanding of server firmware standards, open-source implementations, and specifications for ARM64-based servers.

Responsibilities

• Create software and firmware test plans that address requirements traceability and test coverage against feature requirements.
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated software and firmware test suites to verify product quality and compliance at functional, integration, and system levels.
• Manually test customer installation and deployment experiences for Qualcomm hardware and software in mobile, compute, and automotive environments where appropriate.
• Assist in creating quality engineering and release engineering processes, with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Help achieve production-level software readiness by implementing customer use cases, performing workload analysis, creating workloads, and collaborating on bring-up, debugging, and diagnostics.
• Ensure existing operating systems and customer usage environments run well and identify opportunities for power and performance improvements.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, and other engineering teams to validate platform requirements and features across component, integration, functional, and system levels.

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
• Opportunity for annual RSU grants; employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for the annual bonus.
• Competitive benefits package.

What This Job Offers

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