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Qualcomm

#Software Engineer - Power and Limits Management

Qualcomm San Diego, California, United States of America, United States 21 days ago
Embedded & Systems Software

$99,500 - $149,300 USD yearly

Originally posted 21 September 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role involves software development for power and limits management in chipsets, focusing on system-on-chip (SoC) processors.

What you'll do

  • Analyze existing software to provide recommendations for improving performance, memory, and power utilization.
  • Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation, and debugging across all SoC components.
  • Participate in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs.
  • Scope opportunities for hardware acceleration by providing recommendations to the hardware team.

What you'll need

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
  • Experience developing firmware for memory and CPU constrained systems.
  • Experience analyzing the execution efficiency of power software.
  • Experience managing performance/thermal efficiency tradeoffs.
  • Experience with SoC level interactions between various software components.
  • Experience with various HLOS (e.g., Android) on application cores to meet end-to-end performance.

Nice to have

  • 1-3 years of academic or industry experience.
  • Computer Architecture (ARM architecture preferred).
  • Real Time Operating Systems.
  • C/ASM programming.
  • Debugging Real Time Embedded Systems using JTAG or equivalent.
  • Compilers / Linkers.
  • Python Scripting.
  • Ability to read hardware programming guides and write drivers/software based on that information.
  • Embedded software.
  • Machine Learning.
  • Agile development; Kanban.
  • Version control systems such as Perforce/Git.

Skills: firmware, power efficiency, memory constrained systems, real time operating systems, embedded software

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San Diego, California, United States of America, United States
On-site
$99,500 - $149,300 USD yearly
21 days ago

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