Staff Software Applications Engineer
About The Position
This position is for Qualcomm Automotive Application Engineering Group, which closely collaborates with its automotive partners and customers from concept to commercialization. The team involves with all aspects of Embedded software such as SW & HW designs, Feature Prototyping, Feature Integration, SW customization, Performance Optimization & Improvement and other debugging efforts which is key for a successful launch of the product. This Position is for a strong Software Application Engineer with good knowledge and hands-on experience in Design/Development/Debugging aspects of Embedded Multimedia (Graphics/ Display/Camera/Video /Audio) on one or more of operating systems like Linux, Android, Greenhills Integrity and QNX embedded systems. The Main responsibility is to provide direct support to Qualcomm customers and partners and assist in software debug/triage/customization and optimization to meet the product requirements using the features in Qualcomm SOC. The Candidate must quickly ramp-up onto an existing project, understand Automotive platform Hardware and Software driver architecture, read/write technical specifications/requirements, demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities and work closely with external customers to launch their new products on time. The successful candidate will get a chance to work on cutting edge infotainment/digital cockpit technologies from leading Auto manufacturers and Tier1s and see the projects through to commercialization.
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.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
- 6+ years of experience in Software Applications Engineering or Software Development.
- 2+ years of experience with debugging techniques.
- 3+ years of programming experience in languages such as C, C++, Java, Python.
- 1+ year of experience interacting with leadership.
- Experience in a customer-facing role.
- Experience in embedded software development and debugging.
- Expertise in multimedia technologies in one or more areas: Audio, Display, Graphics, Camera, Video.
- Familiarity with high-level operating systems (Linux, Android) or real-time operating systems (QNX).
- Strong communication and teamwork skills.
- Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies.
- Live and post-mortem debugging.
- Hypervisors and virtualization.
- Graphics APIs (OpenGL, OpenGLES, Vulkan, OpenCL).
- Audio frameworks and drivers.
- Display and camera drivers/controllers.
- GPU buffer management and shader architecture.
- Video/Audio codecs (HEVC, H.264, MP3, AAC).
- System performance profiling and optimization.
- Linux kernel concepts.
- Debugging tools (JTAG, Trace32, oscilloscope/logic analyzer).
Responsibilities
- Drive the firmware design, implementation and verification, in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
- Assist in the definition Power Management solutions for future generation of Qualcomm CPUs.
- Actively engage with open source communities to contribute support for processor architectures, device drivers, and firmware features
- Assist in identifying skills requirements and in hiring engineers, collaborating with other teams on platform bring-up/debug/diags, firmware lifecycle, etc.
- Provide direct support to Qualcomm customers and partners.
- Assist in software debug/triage/customization and optimization to meet the product requirements using the features in Qualcomm SOC.
- Quickly ramp-up onto an existing project.
- Understand Automotive platform Hardware and Software driver architecture.
- Read/write technical specifications/requirements.
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Work closely with external customers to launch their new products on time.
Benefits
- competitive annual discretionary bonus program
- opportunity for annual RSU grants
- highly competitive benefits package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
