Staff Engineer, Application Engineering (Next-Gen Fiber & PON)

Qualcomm • Santa Clara, CA

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About The Position

As a Staff Application Engineer, you will lead the technical enablement of Qualcomm’s Next-generation Fiber Gateway platforms for North American Carriers. We are looking for highly motivated and talented software engineers as part of the application engineering group supporting current and next generation of WLAN Gateway products. As part of this application engineering group, you will be responsible for:
Looking at the customer requirements, proposing feature design and working on implementation of the feature and helping the customers launch with the feature working end to end.
Applying Software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
Analyzing user needs and software requirements to design and customize software for optimal operational efficiency.
Design and implementation of software modules for products and systems.
Participation in the design, coding for large features, unit testing, significant debugging fixes, and integration efforts to ensure projects are completed to specifications and schedules.
Performing code reviews and regression tests as well as triages and fixes issues to ensure the quality of code.
Collaborating with networking/firmware/system/hardware teams to accomplish project objectives.
Writing technical documentation for Software projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
• OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
• OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
• 2+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• 1+ year of experience with debugging techniques.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years GPON Engineering or related work experience.
• PON Standards: Expert knowledge of ITU-T G.9807 (XGS-PON), 25GS-PON MSA, and ITU-T G.9804 (50G-PON). Familiarity with 100G research directions.
• Carrier Specs: Proven experience with Open OMCI specs, Fios requirements, or CableLabs certification.
• Protocol Stack: Deep understanding of OMCI (G.988) managed entities (ME), PLOAM messaging, and TR-069/USP data models.
• Networking: Expert in Linux Networking (Bridge/VLAN/IGMP), IPv4/v6, and high-speed packet processing (25Gbps+ throughput tuning).
• Tools: Proficiency with XML/Ethernet sniffers, OMCI parsers, JTAG/Lauterbach, and traffic generators (Spirent/Ixia).
• Programming Language such as C, C++, Python, shell script, etc.
• Linux device driver development experience
• Any experience in WiFi/Networking protocol development
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced team environment

Responsibilities

• Looking at the customer requirements, proposing feature design and working on implementation of the feature and helping the customers launch with the feature working end to end.
• Applying Software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
• Analyzing user needs and software requirements to design and customize software for optimal operational efficiency.
• Design and implementation of software modules for products and systems.
• Participation in the design, coding for large features, unit testing, significant debugging fixes, and integration efforts to ensure projects are completed to specifications and schedules.
• Performing code reviews and regression tests as well as triages and fixes issues to ensure the quality of code.
• Collaborating with networking/firmware/system/hardware teams to accomplish project objectives.
• Writing technical documentation for Software projects.

What This Job Offers

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