Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Cloud Edge & Data Center Machine Learning)
$117,800 - $176,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 1 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves contributing to the design, development, and commercialization of software/firmware solutions for Cloud Edge and Data Center machine learning (ML) use cases running on premium-tier high-performance silicon. You will contribute to the advancement of ML acceleration, process in memory, memory management, and virtualization.
What you'll do
- Contribute to the design and development of software/firmware solutions for Cloud Edge and Data Center ML use cases
- Advance critical technologies such as ML acceleration and memory management
- Work with internal and cross-functional teams
- Contribute to embedded software development, including board support packages and device drivers
- Utilize development and build tools for applications in an Embedded Linux environment
- Perform unit testing for C development
What you'll need
- 2+ years of work experience with low level C programming
- Proficient with development in C including debug and testing, preferably using GNU/LLVM tools
- Experience with embedded platforms using stop-mode debug tools such as JTAG/SWD
- Skilled with BSP development including device driver development, board bring-up, RTOS, secure boot design & TrustZone architecture
- Experience with development and build tools for applications running within Embedded Linux environment
- Proficient with unit testing for C development
- Adept with RTOS fundamentals, SoC architecture (core, cache, memory, bus architecture, IOs, etc.), common hardware blocks and multi-threaded programming
- Experience with Source Code and Configuration management tools such as git/Gerrit
Nice to have
- Familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX and Llama.cpp
- Familiarity with interfaces such as PCIe, LPDDR, USB and UFS
- Familiarity with implementing Reliability, Accessibility and Serviceability (RAS) through use of technologies such as ECC & PCI AER fields
- Familiarity with low-speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, SPMI, AVSBus & PMBus
- Familiarity working with software running on Qualcomm's QuRT RTOS (ARM Cortex-A CPUs and Hexagon DSPs)
- Familiarity with on-chip Middleware for communication, logging and power control, including Qualcomm's Core SW Infra (e.g., Glink, QDSS, SOC power control algorithms such as DVFS, DCVS)
- Experience working with microprocessor building blocks like microprocessor execution levels, interrupt controller & timers
- Experience with software development and debug tools including compilers, profilers, source control systems, emulators, JTAG and serial debuggers, and logic analyzers
Skills: low level C programming, BSP development, device driver development, RTOS, JTAG/SWD
This role has been open 8 days — well below the 58-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
725
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Median days open
58 d
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Median salary
$168k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (725 roles · 80 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 123 | 725 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 725 | 6078 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 63 d | 58 d (+5 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $168k |
Skills observed across this category: low level C programming, BSP development, device driver development, RTOS, JTAG/SWD
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 127 open roles · median 59 d
- Micron Technology · 61 open roles · median 99 d
- AMD · 59 open roles · median 31 d
- NVIDIA · 57 open roles · median 59 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 41 open roles · median 30 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 29 open roles · median 78 d
How we counted: 725 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 80 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.