$117,800 - $176,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 6 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Qualcomm is seeking a platform software engineer to contribute to the development of automotive software solutions. The role focuses on platform software drivers and modules integrating with specific hardware blocks, sub-systems, and SoCs.
What you'll do
- Understand software product requirements, use cases, and applications, and map how they integrate with specific hardware blocks or sub-systems.
- Design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded platform software, drivers, and modules.
- Lead the development, debugging, and customer interactions for platform software drivers and modules.
- Collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and evaluate performance requirements and interfaces.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 2+ years of Software Engineering experience, or a Master's degree with 1+ year experience, or a PhD.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
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 such as ASPICE, ISO26262, and ISO21434.
- Knowledge of interaction types between hardware and software for standard hardware blocks, CPU, and accelerators.
- Experience in software design and development for SoC software layers, including boot, drivers, embedded firmware, security, safety, and kernels (Linux, QNX, SafeRTOS).
- Embedded software development experience for ARM based systems.
- C programming, HW debugging with JTAG, and OS fundamentals.
Skills: C, drivers, Linux, QNX, kernels, ARM
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 64-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
686
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Median days open
64 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$219k
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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 (686 roles · 73 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 158 | 686 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 686 | 6530 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 84 d | 64 d (+20 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $219k |
Skills observed across this category: C, drivers, Linux, QNX, kernels, ARM
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 161 open roles · median 52 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 157 open roles · median 86 d
- AMD · 63 open roles · median 57 d
- Arm Holdings · 31 open roles · median 9 d
- Mobileye · 27 open roles · median 92 d
- Broadcom · 15 open roles · median 72 d
How we counted: 686 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 73 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 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.