$109,400 - $164,200 USD yearly
Originally posted 10 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role manages end-to-end feature validation, test-framework development, continuous integration, and process automation for large-scale software subsystems supporting advanced 5G and 6G wireless research. You will collaborate with system architects, software developers, and test engineers to integrate and validate research-grade prototypes and early-stage platforms.
What you'll do
- Integrate, test, and maintain embedded and system software across the development lifecycle for research prototypes, demonstrations, and showcases.
- Develop feature test plans and validate features end-to-end across large-scale software subsystems and wireless research platforms.
- Design, develop, and maintain test frameworks, utilities, automation, and continuous or nightly regression suites integrated with CI/CD workflows.
- Plan, configure, and maintain software, hardware, device, and network environments for integration, testing, and demonstrations.
- Use standard embedded and Linux debugging tools to troubleshoot complex software, hardware/software integration, timing, performance, and stability issues.
- Develop and apply network diagnostics, logging, data analysis, visualization, and performance tools to support root-cause analysis.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience using Python or a comparable language for scripting, automation, testing, or data analysis.
- Knowledge of C/C++ and software design and development.
- Understanding of operating-system fundamentals, multithreading, concurrency, and real-time or embedded software concepts.
- Knowledge of test frameworks, utilities, and testing methodologies.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or 2 years of relevant experience in embedded software, systems software, integration, or test engineering.
- Experience with software development, debugging, deployment, and release in Linux environments, including tools such as GDB and perf.
- Experience with end-to-end software and hardware integration in networked or distributed environments.
- Experience developing test frameworks, utilities, automated regression suites, and test automation integrated with CI/CD.
- Familiarity with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Understanding of wireless systems, networking, QoS frameworks, and protocols including 5G NR, LTE, and IEEE 802.11.
Skills: wireless, 5G NR, integration testing, CI/CD, Python, Linux
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First seen in our index 0 days ago, well below the 62-day median for Software Engineering Semiconductor roles.
Software Engineering Semiconductor · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
352
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Median days since first seen
62 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$150k
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| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (352 roles · 55 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 25 | 352 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 691 | 6585 · 157 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 21 d | 62 d (+41 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $150k |
Skills observed across this category: wireless, 5G NR, integration testing, CI/CD, Python, Linux
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 35 open roles · median 60 d
- Keysight Technologies · 30 open roles · median 54 d
- Cadence Design Systems · 28 open roles · median 231 d
- KLA Corporation · 26 open roles · median 148 d
- Applied Materials · 25 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 23 open roles · median 42 d
How we counted: 352 open Software Engineering Semiconductor (Systems Software) roles from 55 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 11 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.