Staff Software Engineer (Data Center Test Automation)
$141,300 - $211,900 USD yearly
Originally posted 21 October 2026 by the employer.
Design automation infrastructure and backend services for data center chipset validation within Qualcomm's DragonX automation team.
About the role
The DragonX automation team is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and develop large-scale software and automation solutions for data center chipset and platform validation. The role focuses on developing automation infrastructure for test orchestration, resource management, test execution, results analysis, and failure triage across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
What you'll do
- Design, develop, test, and maintain software for data center chipset and platform test automation. - Build solutions for test orchestration, job automation, resource management, test execution, monitoring, results processing, and failure analysis. - Develop software and backend services using Python, REST APIs, databases, distributed systems, and modern web technologies. - Design reusable APIs and automation frameworks that enable integration of new chipsets, workloads, platforms, and test environments. - Troubleshoot problems spanning software services, automation infrastructure, compute resources, test environments, and target platforms. - Contribute to architecture decisions, conduct code and design reviews, and provide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers.
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 work experience with programming languages such as Python, C, C++, or Java, with strong Python programming skills. - Experience with Linux, distributed systems, REST services, databases, SQL, and software automation. - Demonstrated experience building complex, production-quality software systems that manage parallel or distributed workloads. - Proven debugging and problem-solving experience across applications, services, infrastructure, and automation environments.
Nice to have
- Experience developing automation or software infrastructure for data center silicon, CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, DSPs, NPUs, or heterogeneous SoCs. - Experience with test automation, validation infrastructure, job orchestration, resource scheduling, or device-management systems. - Familiarity with data center compute architectures and workloads, including compute-intensive and AI/ML workloads. - Experience with pre-silicon and post-silicon validation. - Experience with cloud infrastructure, containers, distributed compute, CI/CD, telemetry, and observability.
Skills: Python, test automation, data center, job orchestration, REST APIs, Linux
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
998
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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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 (998 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 65 | 998 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 728 | 6296 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 48 d | 50 d (−2 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: Python, test automation, data center, job orchestration, REST APIs, Linux
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 290 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 62 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 96 d
- Intel Corporation · 44 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 35 open roles · median 86 d
How we counted: 998 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 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.