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Qualcomm

#Platform SW Engineer, Automotive

Qualcomm San Diego, California, United States of America, United States 5 months ago
Embedded & Systems Software

$94,200 - $141,200 USD yearly

Originally posted 11 June 2026 by the employer.

About the role

As a Platform Software Engineer, you will understand software product requirements, use cases, and applications, and how they integrate with specific hardware blocks or sub-systems for automotive platforms.

What you'll do

- Lead the development, debugging, and customer interactions for various platform software drivers and modules. - Design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded software and system-level software solutions. - Collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces. - Deliver platform software solutions for automotive applications.

What you'll need

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.

Nice to have

- Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. - Exposure to automotive SW development processes and standards (e.g., ASPICE, ISO26262, and ISO21434). - Knowledge of interaction types between hardware and software for different types of standard hardware blocks, CPU, and accelerators. - Experience in software design and development for software layers found in SoCs (e.g., boot, drivers, embedded firmware, security, safety, kernels such as Linux, QNX, and SafeRTOS). - Software experience in embedded software development for ARM based systems. - C programming, HW debugging with JTAG, and OS fundamentals.

Skills: platform software, automotive Solutions, HW debugging with JTAG, embedded software development, drivers

Market context

This role has been open 134 days — well above the 99-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.

Embedded Firmware Engineering · Automotive IC

Open roles in category
72
Median days open
99 d
Median salary
$159k
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
How Qualcomm compares in Embedded Firmware Engineering hiring
Metric Qualcomm All employers we track in this specialty (72 roles · 16 employers)
Open roles in this specialty 17 72
Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family 738 6298 · 144 employers
Median days open 198 d 99 d (+99 d vs this employer)
Median salary (USD postings) — $159k

Skills observed across this category: platform software, automotive Solutions, HW debugging with JTAG, embedded software development, drivers

Who's hiring in this category

  • Qualcomm (this employer) · 17 open roles · median 197 d
  • Infineon Technologies · 11 open roles · median 93 d
  • NVIDIA · 11 open roles · median 77 d
  • NXP Semiconductors · 7 open roles · median 105 d
  • Renesas Electronics · 5 open roles · median 43 d
  • Arrow Electronics · 4 open roles · median 118 d

How we counted: 72 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Automotive IC) roles from 16 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 23 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.

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San Diego, California, United States of America, United States
On-site
$94,200 - $141,200 USD yearly
5 months ago

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