#Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Cloud Edge and Data Center Machine Learning

# ** This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship. **

Qualcomm's new Data Center Business Unit (BU) is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the design, development, and commercialization of software/firmware solutions for Cloud Edge and Data Center machine learning (ML) use cases running on premium-tier high-performance silicon. You will work closely with internal and cross-functional teams and contribute to the advancement of critical technologies such as ML acceleration, process in memory, memory management and virtualization.

The candidate should have a background in embedded software development such as board support packages (BSP), device driver development, RTOS, secure boot, TrustZone technology, low-speed peripheral interfaces (I2C/SPI/UART), chipset power blocks, clock tree management, PCIe and efficient data movement using DMA

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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

* Proficient with development in C including debug and testing, preferably 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

* Adept with RTOS fundamentals, SoC architecture (core, cache, memory, bus architecture, IOs, etc.), common hardware blocks and multi-threaded programming

* Experience with Source Code and Configuration management tools such as git/Gerrit

* Ability to work in a structured software development environment while contributing to novel designs

* Have willingness and flexibility to work as part of a high-caliber international/multi-site team

* Demonstrate excellent English communication skills (written and verbal) and positive interpersonal skills

* Familiar with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX and Llama.cpp

* Familiar with implementing Reliability, Accessibility and Serviceability (RAS) through use of technologies such as ECC & PCI AER fields

* Familiar with low-speed interfaces such as I2C, SPI, SPMI, AVSBus & PMBus

* Familiar working with software running on Qualcomm's QuRT RTOS (ARM Cortex-A 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 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