Sr. Embedded Software Engineer
$117,800 - $176,600 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves designing, developing, creating, modifying, and validating embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and specialized utility programs.
What you'll do
- Design and develop embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and utility programs.
- Collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, and test engineers to design system-level software solutions.
- Obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.
- Debug and test in C on embedded platforms using stop-mode debug tools like JTAG/SWD.
- Work with BSP development including device driver development and board bring-up.
- Use development and build tools for applications running within Embedded Linux.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering experience OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering experience.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python.
- Proficient with development in C including debug and testing, using GNU/LLVM tools, on embedded platforms using stop-mode debug tools such as JTAG/SWD.
- Skilled with BSP development including device driver development, board bring-up, RTOS, secure boot design & TrustZone architecture.
- Experience with development and build tools for applications running within Embedded Linux environment.
- Proficient with unit testing for C development.
- Adept with RTOS fundamentals, SoC architecture (core, cache, memory, bus architecture, IOs), common hardware blocks and multi-threaded programming.
- Experience with Source Code and Configuration management tools such as git/Gerrit.
Nice to have
- Familiar with PCIe, LPDDR, SMMU, SR-IOV.
- Familiar with low-speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, SPMI, AVSBus & PMBus.
- Familiar with implementing Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) through use of technologies such as ECC & PCI AER fields.
- Familiar working with software running on RTOS (ARM/Risc-V CPUs and Hexagon DSPs).
- Familiar with on-chip Middleware for communication, logging and power control, including Qualcomm’s Core SW Infra (e.g., Glink, QDSS, SOC power control algorithms such as DVFS, DCVS).
- Experience OpenBMC and server management standards: IPMI, Redfish, PLDM, MCTP.
- Experience working with microprocessor building blocks like microprocessor execution levels, interrupt controller & timers.
- Software development and debug tools including compilers, profilers, source control systems, emulators, JTAG and serial debuggers, and logic analyzers.
- Understanding of accelerator architectures, including compute engines, memory hierarchies, DMA engines, and host-device communication mechanisms.
- Experience debugging performance bottlenecks across compute, memory, and I/O subsystems.
- Design and implement firmware enabling scalable, topology-aware communication across AI accelerator deployments spanning SoC, card, server, rack.
Skills: BSP development, device driver development, board bring-up, RTOS, secure boot
This role has been open 9 days — well below the 59-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
724
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
$168k
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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 (724 roles · 81 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 123 | 724 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 725 | 6078 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 63 d | 59 d (+4 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $168k |
Skills observed across this category: BSP development, device driver development, board bring-up, RTOS, secure boot
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 123 open roles · median 64 d
- AMD · 62 open roles · median 31 d
- Micron Technology · 62 open roles · median 89 d
- NVIDIA · 56 open roles · median 60 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 41 open roles · median 31 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 27 open roles · median 79 d
How we counted: 724 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 81 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.