Qualcomm Staff Windows Power Performance Engineer 

United States, Washington 

355445462

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

Qualcomm Technologies Inc., the maker of the industry-leading Snapdragon SoCs, is the largest provider of complete chipset solutions for Microsoft Windows-on-Snapdragon products.

Strong software development skills will allow you to gather requirements, design, and develop device power management, CPU/DDR power and perf management, Thermal management

and related features for Windows OS based products. Communication and collaboration skills are essential and as part of Windows power software team you will be interacting

Looking for a self-starter with excellent people skills and software design and development aptitude to match.

The Ideal Candidate will have:

• Embedded Windows software and good driver programming skills.

• Solid understanding of Operating System concepts.

• Windows and/or Linux kernel and driver development experience.

• Understanding and experience in implementing power/thermal management driver software.

• Strong understanding of C/C++, Shell Scripting or Python skills and hands-on experience on debugging ARM or other SoC embedded systems.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills.

• Ability to co-ordinate across stakeholders and drive towards task completion.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

• 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• C/C++programming.

• Windows OS internals knowledge and experience

• Device driver programming and debugging with WinDbg, JTAG/other tools.

• Processor architecture and cache subsystem.

• Experience with PC software - System BIOS, UEFI, ACPI, Drivers, Applications

• ARM assembly

• Embedded OS (Kernel architecture, OS services heap, memory, multi-core, multi-threading, and crash debugging).

• Knowledge of OS/system performance profiling and optimization techniques.

• Communication, written & interpersonal skills, motivation, the ability to learn quickly.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range:

$142,000.00 - $213,000.00