Staff Engineer, CPU Software Test Engineer (Server)

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all.
As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs.
Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.
Job Overview
Create software/firmware test plans, addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage, with respect to feature requirements
Design, develop, execute and maintain automated software/firmware test suites for the purpose of verifying quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration and system levels
Manually test, where appropriate, the customer experience of installation and deployment of Qualcomm hardware and software in a mobile, compute and automotive environment.
Assist in the creation of a Quality Engineering/Release engineering process with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment
Assist in achieving production-level software readiness, implement customer use-cases, workload analysis models, workload creation, and collaborating with other teams on bring-up/debug/diags
Focus on ensuring that existing Operating Systems and customer usage environments run well, while identifying strong opportunity for enhancements, from a power and performance perspective.

Requirements

• 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

• 8+ years of experience in Software/Firmware Validation
• Demonstrated software test engineering in SW/FW engineering with focus on Data Center Servers (minimum 5 years).
• Strong understanding and experience in software/firmware test automation techniques
• Extensive experience working with operating systems like Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, similar or Windows server
• Work with multiple SW/HW Engineering teams to ensure that all requirements and features of reference platform requirements have been validated at a component, integration, functional and system level
• Strong programming skills with experience in C and/or Python programming languages
• Experience developing automated software/firmware test cases for server platforms, supporting bring-up and production SW releases
• Prior Experience with SW/FW integration at BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, Operating System for x86/ARM64/RISC-V 64bit for server platforms.
• Strong understanding of Server firmware Standards, opensource Implementation and specifications for ARM64-based servers

Responsibilities

• Create software/firmware test plans, addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage, with respect to feature requirements
• Design, develop, execute and maintain automated software/firmware test suites for the purpose of verifying quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration and system levels
• Manually test, where appropriate, the customer experience of installation and deployment of Qualcomm hardware and software in a mobile, compute and automotive environment.
• Assist in the creation of a Quality Engineering/Release engineering process with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Assist in achieving production-level software readiness, implement customer use-cases, workload analysis models, workload creation, and collaborating with other teams on bring-up/debug/diags
• Focus on ensuring that existing Operating Systems and customer usage environments run well, while identifying strong opportunity for enhancements, from a power and performance perspective.

What This Job Offers

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