Senior IPS Hardware Support Engineer
$42 - $63 USD hourly
Originally posted 23 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Support Engineer at Qualcomm, you will contribute to product improvement and collaborate with engineering teams to sustain aspects of the product development life cycle. You will play a key role in resolving technical system issues to support product reliability.
What you'll do
- Provide organizational or development support from initial concept through project completion phases, executing modifications and revisions of electronic parts, software, system components, or circuitry. - Support engineers with recommendations on design approaches, layout, and parameters for mid-sized projects. - Install, upgrade, configure, and help operate company products and components based on specifications, tolerances, and reliability standards. - Monitor product performance, analyze moderately complex failures or malfunctions, and suggest corrective actions. - Gather, integrate, and interpret data and information across multiple sources to evaluate specifications and develop technical solutions. - Collaborate across functional teams to integrate projects and verify that changes work seamlessly with other project components.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of Support Engineering or related work experience, Associate's degree with 3+ years of experience, or High School Diploma (or equivalent) with 4+ years of experience. - Experience executing modifications and revisions of electronic parts, software, systems, components, or circuitry. - Experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and operating hardware products and components. - Ability to analyze hardware failures or malfunctions and implement corrective actions.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, or a related field. - Certification in Electronics or related area, or military experience/training in the electronics field (Rank E5, 2 years). - 4 years of experience with digital HW, SW, and/or analog RF troubleshooting and debugging. - 4 years of experience in a lab environment. - 2 years in a leadership role with or without direct reports, or 2 years interacting with senior leadership (Director level and above).
Skills: troubleshooting, hardware debugging, electronic parts, lab environment
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 36-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
34
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Median days open
36 d
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Median salary
$148k
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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 (34 roles · 15 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 34 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 738 | 6298 · 144 employers |
| Median days open | 0 d | 36 d (−36 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $148k |
Skills observed across this category: troubleshooting, hardware debugging, electronic parts, lab environment
Who's hiring in this category
- Lam Research · 7 open roles · median 102 d
- Teradyne · 6 open roles · median 44 d
- Keysight Technologies · 3 open roles · median 30 d
- Applied Materials · 2 open roles · median 122 d
- ASML · 2 open roles · median 10 d
- FormFactor · 2 open roles · median 17 d
How we counted: 34 open Hardware Systems Engineering (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 15 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.