Software Engineer, Sr - Power and Limits Management
$117,800 - $176,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Software Engineer in the Power and Limits management software group, you will analyze requirements, design software solutions, and ensure power efficiency across multiple processor subsystems on the SoC. The role covers the full product life cycle from pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs to commercialization.
What you'll do
- Analyze software requirements and design solutions to meet power efficiency goals for processors across various SoC subsystems. - Perform detailed analysis of existing software to recommend optimizations for performance, memory, power utilization, and SW/HW partitioning. - Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation, and debugging across SoC components. - Participate in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs. - Identify opportunities for hardware acceleration and provide recommendations to hardware engineering teams.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 2+ years of software engineering experience (or Master's degree with 1+ year, or PhD). - 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
Nice to have
- 4 to 8 years of experience in Computer Architecture, with ARM architecture preferred. - Experience with Real Time Operating Systems and embedded software. - Experience in C/ASM programming and debugging real-time embedded systems using JTAG or equivalent tools. - Experience with compilers, linkers, and Python scripting. - Ability to read hardware programming guides and write drivers or software based on specifications. - Experience with Machine Learning, Agile development (Kanban), and version control systems such as Perforce or Git.
Skills: power and limits management, firmware, memory and CPU constrained systems, power efficiency, embedded software, real time operating systems
This role has been open 33 days — well below the 55-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
755
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Median days open
55 d
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Median salary
$169k
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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 (755 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 125 | 755 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 728 | 6296 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 51 d | 55 d (−4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $169k |
Skills observed across this category: power and limits management, firmware, memory and CPU constrained systems, power efficiency, embedded software, real time operating systems
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 125 open roles · median 52 d
- Micron Technology · 63 open roles · median 90 d
- AMD · 62 open roles · median 39 d
- NVIDIA · 56 open roles · median 59 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 47 open roles · median 42 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 36 open roles · median 29 d
How we counted: 755 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 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.