Software Engineer, Sr. Staff - Power and Limits Management

QCT Core Technologies is looking to hire talented engineers in the Power and Limits management software group. In this highly visible role, candidates will be working in a dynamic environment, interfacing across multiple disciplines including system, power, software, and hardware engineers to develop innovative architectures that meet the requirements of Qualcomm growing product portfolio.

Candidates will be able to gain exposure to the full product life cycle from pre-silicon to commercialization of Qualcomm chipsets.

As a Power and Limits software engineer, candidates will own or participate in one or more of the following:

* Multiple aspects of software development - analyzing the requirements, designing robust software solutions, and ensuring that the power efficiency is met, for current and next generation chipsets to meet the growing product requirements on processors across various subsystems on the SoC

* Perform detailed analysis of the existing software to provide innovative recommendations to improve performance, memory, and power utilization, including software optimizations, SW/HW partitioning, new algorithms etc.

* Develop tools for silicon profiling, validation and debugging across all SOC components

* Scope opportunities for HW acceleration by providing recommendations to the HW team

* Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with high expectations

* Passionate for building great products, with a willingness to disrupt the status quo and push boundaries to deliver innovations that affect the experience of millions of end users

* Excellent technical communication and interpersonal skills

* Developing firmware for memory and CPU constrained systems

* SOC level interactions between various software components

* Machine learning on data sets spanning across generations of product architectures,

* Working with various HLOS (eg: Android) on application cores to meet end-to-end performance

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

- 3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

10+ years of academic or industry experience in the following:

* Debugging Real Time Embedded Systems using JTAG or equivalent

* Ability to read hardware programming guides and write drivers/software based on that information