Qualcomm Engineer - Embedded Core Platform 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

366510429

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

Job Purpose:

Right candidate shall be required to primarily contribute to all aspects of platform development. Candidate will require to familiarize himself with existing code deployed on earlier variants of the chip and further enhance or fix customer reported issues around the platform. Candidate will knowledge of Power Management, Audio Interfaces, RTOS based firmware development and/or Radio Interfaces would be preferred. Knowledge of peripheral interfaces such as USB, QSPI, I3C, UART, I2C and/or SPI would be very useful in this role. Role would further entail troubleshooting and resolving system issues ranging across multiple embedded application layers interfacing with other sub-systems within the chip or with hosting chipsets.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

Additional Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to multitask in a paced environment.

• Capability to comprehend and capture accurate requirements.

• Define tasks and create work breakdown including estimation of tasks.

• Ability to prioritize requests and communicate priorities.

• Develop and test software of major scale and complexity to agreed timescales.

• Maintain firmware software components including defect investigation.

• Conduct software peer reviews.

• Create relevant documentation following the department’s processes.

• Track hardware changes and understand impact on firmware.

• Design firmware components that require to be enhanced and adapted to existing design.

• Deliver high-quality firmware in line with the department’s processes.

• Contribute to continuous development of the department’s processes

Required

• Excellent C and/or assembly programming skills with proven experience of writing efficient code for low powered and memory constrained systems

• Knowledge of RTOS based environments required. Exposure to FreeRTOS would be very desirable.

• Understanding of processor architectures, especially Cortex-M ARM or RISC-V architecture would be highly desirable.

• Excellent trouble shooting and analytical skills that may be applied to resolve potential system issues

• Knowledge of embedded platforms peripherals such as UART, SPI, I2C, I3C, Q/OSPI, USB .

• Knowledge of Power Management in embedded systems such as control of LDOs and SMPS, DVFS schemes, use of power analysis tools.

• Exposure to working on FPGA based emulation setups, debugging tools and use of utilities like logic analyzers, oscilloscope, JTAG interfaces over Lauterbach/J-Link .

• Ability to provide work breakdown for new features with feasibility study, effort estimates and risk mitigation

• Strong communication skills with ability to evaluate and create design documentation detailing complex features and relationships

• 3+ years of relevant industry work experience

• Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field

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