Senior Engineer - Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Embedded & Systems Software
Originally posted 22 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
This role focuses on developing embedded software and hardware drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon products.
About the role
This role focuses on developing embedded software and hardware drivers for low-power accelerator and multi-DSP platforms on Qualcomm Snapdragon products.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, integrate, and test embedded software, firmware, and runtime components for low-power accelerator and DSP subsystems.
- Develop and maintain hardware drivers for machine-learning accelerators, including device initialization, resource management, interrupt handling, power-state transitions, and error recovery.
- Design software for multi-DSP and heterogeneous compute architectures, including workload partitioning, synchronization, and coordination across processors.
- Implement and optimize inter-processor communication mechanisms such as shared-memory transport, message queues, signaling, interrupts, and remote procedure calls.
- Develop robust memory-management solutions covering static and dynamic allocation, memory pools, shared memory, virtual-to-physical address translation, cache coherency, and DMA handling.
- Debug complex system-level issues involving operating systems, drivers, firmware, concurrency, memory corruption, and processor interactions using target debugging and profiling tools.
What you'll need
- Strong embedded C programming skills with hands-on experience in low-level software development.
- Strong understanding of operating-system concepts, including processes and threads, scheduling, synchronization, interrupts, timers, virtual memory, and device-driver models.
- Hands-on experience with RTOS and/or embedded Linux environments, including board bring-up, kernel-facing interfaces, and system debugging.
- Deep understanding of memory handling in embedded systems, including stack and heap usage, memory pools, alignment, fragmentation, memory protection, cache behavior, and coherency.
- Experience with multi-core, multi-DSP or heterogeneous processor architectures and associated concurrency challenges.
- Experience implementing inter-processor communication using shared memory, mailboxes, message queues, interrupts, or RPC.
- Experience developing hardware drivers, preferably for accelerator, DSP, NPU, or other high-performance compute blocks.
- Good understanding of computer architecture, including CPU/DSP pipelines, caches, MMU/IOMMU, DMA, bus interfaces, and memory-mapped I/O.
- Experience with multi-threaded programming, POSIX/Pthreads, synchronization primitives, and race-condition analysis.
- Proficiency with embedded debugging and profiling tools such as JTAG, trace tools, crash dumps, logic analyzers, and performance profilers.
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, software design, and fixed-point programming.
Nice to have
- Strong system-level understanding of SoC architecture, including CPU, DSP, NPU/AI accelerators, memory hierarchy, cache coherency, DMA engines, buses, and interconnects.
- Proven experience interpreting hardware architecture specifications, programming guides, register descriptions, and functional specifications to design, develop, and optimize low-level software and hardware drivers.
- Hands-on experience developing and debugging hardware drivers based on hardware documentation, including device initialization, interrupt handling, power management, resource management, error recovery, and performance optimization.
- Strong understanding of system bring-up, boot flows, clock and reset frameworks, power domains, memory subsystems, and platform resource management.
- Familiarity with secure execution environments, memory protection mechanisms, fault-tolerant embedded software design, and system reliability considerations.
- Experience with performance analysis and optimization using hardware performance counters, processor-specific instruction sets, compiler optimizations, and low-level profiling techniques.
Skills: embedded software, firmware, hardware drivers, machine-learning accelerators, DSP subsystems
Market context
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 42-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Mixed Signal DSP
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Open roles in category
29
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Median days open
42 d
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Median salary
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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 (29 roles · 11 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 29 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 746 | 5873 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 42 d | 42 d (same as this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: embedded software, firmware, hardware drivers, machine-learning accelerators, DSP subsystems
Who's hiring in this category
- Renesas Electronics · 6 open roles · median 33 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 5 open roles · median 13 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 5 open roles · median 75 d
- Silicon Labs · 4 open roles · median 25 d
- Ambiq Micro · 2 open roles · median 61 d
- Cirrus Logic · 2 open roles · median 47 d
How we counted: 29 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Mixed Signal DSP) roles from 11 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Sept 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.