Software Engineer, Staff - Power and Limits Management

Originally posted 1 December 2025 by the employer.

About the role

This role sits within the QCT Core Technologies Power and Limits management software group, responsible for designing software and firmware across SoC processors and subsystems from pre-silicon through commercialization.

What you'll do

- Analyze requirements and design software solutions to ensure power efficiency across SoC processor subsystems. - Perform detailed software analysis to optimize performance, memory, and power utilization via SW/HW partitioning and new algorithms. - Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation, and debugging across SoC components. - Participate in pre-silicon evaluations and sign-offs. - Identify opportunities for HW acceleration and provide architectural recommendations to hardware teams. - Develop firmware for memory and CPU constrained systems while managing performance and thermal efficiency tradeoffs.

What you'll need

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 4+ years of software engineering experience (or Master's with 3+ years, or PhD with 2+ years). - 2+ years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python. - Experience with software optimizations and firmware development on processor subsystems.

Nice to have

- 7 to 10 years of academic or industry experience in Computer Architecture (ARM architecture preferred). - Real Time Operating Systems and embedded software development. - C/ASM programming and debugging real-time embedded systems using JTAG or equivalent. - Compilers, linkers, and Python scripting. - Experience reading hardware programming guides to implement drivers and software. - Machine Learning. - Agile development, Kanban, and version control systems such as Perforce or Git.

Skills: power and limits management, software optimization, HW acceleration, pre-silicon evaluations, firmware development