#Wireless S/w Engineer
$114,500 - $171,700 USD yearly
Originally posted 18 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing real-time embedded software for Qualcomm's modem subsystem (MPSS).
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and optimize real-time embedded modem software across protocol layers, drivers, and platform services.
- Apply data-structure and algorithm design to build efficient, scalable firmware components.
- Own end-to-end feature delivery: requirements, architecture, implementation, unit/integration testing, on-target bring-up, and maintenance.
- Pioneer AI-native development practices within the team, integrating AI coding agents and establishing prompt patterns.
- Build and maintain AI-assisted tooling for code review, static analysis, test synthesis, and automated crash/log triage.
- Debug and root-cause complex, multi-layer issues on target hardware, leveraging AI-assisted analysis of logs, traces, and RAM dumps.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- Strong command of data structures and algorithms with ability to reason about time/space complexity.
- Deep understanding of operating systems concepts: scheduling, concurrency, interrupts, memory management, IPC, real-time constraints, and RTOS internals.
- Proven programming proficiency in modern C/C++ (C++17 and beyond), including performance optimization and lock-free/thread-safe patterns.
- Experience with embedded software on DSP and Arm architectures, including familiarity with SIMD/vectorization, DMA, and low-power design.
- Experience with debugging on target hardware: JTAG, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, crash-dump / RAM-dump analysis, and log parsing.
- AI-first mindset, treating AI tooling as a core engineering multiplier.
- Experience using AI coding assistants and agentic tools to generate, refactor, and review embedded C/C++.
- Ability to build and maintain AI-augmented developer workflows: prompt libraries, agent rules, and retrieval-augmented context.
- Experience applying LLMs to crash triage, log summarization, root-cause analysis, and automated defect classification.
Nice to have
- Experience with device drivers, HAL layers, boot flows, and hardware/software co-design.
- Interest in AI-assisted test generation and verification, including synthesizing unit/integration tests and fuzzing harnesses.
- Comfort evaluating AI output critically, validating generated code against timing/memory budgets, and enforcing safety and correctness.
- Experience fine-tuning, prompt-engineering, or building tooling around code models; familiarity with embedding/vector search over source repositories.
Skills: real-time embedded modem software, DSP and Arm architectures, RTOS internals, AI-native development, modem subsystem
This role has been open 20 days — well below the 58-day median for Embedded Firmware Engineering roles.
Embedded Firmware Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
725
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Median days open
58 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 (725 roles · 80 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 127 | 725 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 733 | 6085 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 59 d | 58 d (+1 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $168k |
Skills observed across this category: real-time embedded modem software, DSP and Arm architectures, RTOS internals, AI-native development, modem subsystem
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 127 open roles · median 59 d
- Micron Technology · 61 open roles · median 99 d
- AMD · 59 open roles · median 31 d
- NVIDIA · 57 open roles · median 59 d
- Lattice Semiconductor · 41 open roles · median 30 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 29 open roles · median 78 d
How we counted: 725 open Embedded Firmware Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 80 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 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.