Sr Staff Software Design/Development Engineer (Firmware for Machine Learning Accelerator)

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

Qualcomm is looking for an experienced software developer to work within an existing team to add firmware support for machine learning Edge and Datacenter use cases. The development target is Qualcomm’s next generation high-performance inference accelerator. Candidate should have a background in embedded software development such as: board support packages device driver development RTOS secure boot trust-zone low-speed peripheral interfaces (I2C/SPI/UART) chipset power blocks clock tree management PCIe and efficient data movement using DMA.

Requirements

• Experience in unit testing for C/C++ development
• Experience with development in C/C++ including debug and testing, preferable using GNU/LLVM tools) on embedded platforms using stop-mode debug tools such as JTAG/SWD
• Experience working with BSP development including device driver development, board-bring-up, RTOS’s, secure boot & trust zone
• Experience with development of peripheral drivers.
• Knowledge of RTOS, SoC architecture (core, cache, memory, bus architecture, IOs, etc.) and common hardware blocks and multi-threaded programming
• Experience with Source Code and Configuration management tools such as git/Gerrit
• Willingness to work in a structured software development environment with ability to work on low-level implementation (code & test)
• Willingness to work in a high-caliber international/multi-site team
• Good English communication (written and verbal) and positive interpersonal skills
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR 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.

Nice To Haves

• Familiar with high speed interfaces such as PCIe and LPDDR
• Familiar with implementing systems with high reliability expectations such as use of ECC, PCI AER fields.
• Familiar with low speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, SPMI, AVSBus & PMBus
• Familiar working with software running on Qualcomm’s QuRT RTOS (ARM Cortex-A CPU’s and Hexagon DSPs)
• Familiar with Qualcomm’s Core Software infrastructure e.g. Glink, QDSS, SOC power control algorithms such as dynamic frequency/voltage scaling.
• Experience working with and familiarity with important SOC building blocks like interrupt controller & timers
• Software development and debug tools including compilers, profilers, source control systems, emulators, JTAG and serial debuggers, and logic analyzers

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees