#Sr. Engineer, CPU Software Test Engineer (Server)

This position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs.

Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.

* Create software/firmware test plans, addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage, with respect to feature requirements

* Design, develop, execute and maintain automated software/firmware test suites for the purpose of verifying quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration and system levels

* Manually test, where appropriate, the customer experience of installation and deployment of Qualcomm hardware and software in a mobile, compute and automotive environment.

* Assist in the creation of a Quality Engineering/Release engineering process with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment

* Assist in achieving production-level software readiness, implement customer use-cases, workload analysis models, workload creation, and collaborating with other teams on bring-up/debug/diags

* Focus on ensuring that existing Operating Systems and customer usage environments run well, while identifying strong opportunity for enhancements, from a power and performance perspective.

- 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.

* Demonstrated software test engineering in SW/FW engineering with focus on Data Center Servers (minimum 5 years).

* Strong understanding and experience in software/firmware test automation techniques

* Extensive experience working with operating systems like Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, similar or Windows server

* Work with multiple SW/HW Engineering teams to ensure that all requirements and features of reference platform requirements have been validated at a component, integration, functional and system level

* Strong programming skills with experience in C and/or Python programming languages

* Experience developing automated software/firmware test cases for server platforms, supporting bring-up and production SW releases

* Prior Experience with SW/FW integration at BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, Operating System for x86/ARM64/RISC-V 64bit for server platforms.

* Strong understanding of Server firmware Standards, opensource Implementation and specifications for ARM64-based servers

- Leverages advanced Software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.

- Analyzes user needs, software requirements, and time and cost constraints to design and customize software for optimal operational efficiency.

- Designs and implements software modules for large-scale products and systems.

- Participates in and leads design, coding, unit testing, debugging, and integration efforts to ensure projects are completed to specifications and schedules.

- Performs complex code reviews and regression tests as well as triages and fixes issues to ensure the quality of code.

- Collaborates with individuals outside the software function (e.g., Hardware, Systems, and Test engineers) to ensure solutions work with other components of a specific project.

- Writes detailed technical documentation for complex Software projects.

- Decision-making may affect work beyond immediate work group.

- Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information. May require basic negotiation, influence, tact, etc.

- Tasks do not have defined steps; planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.