Qualcomm Engineer Sr 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

435172705

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

Job Overview:

Qualcomm Snapdragon SOC’s long battery life is built on industry leading power management architectures. As a member of the APPS Power Optimization Team you will contribute to the optimization of power consumed of various test cases for upcoming Snapdragon SoCs designed for mobile, IoT, Wear, AR/VR and modem products. You will work with engineers across a range of disciplines (e.g. hardware, software and systems) and technologies (e.g. advanced CPUs, Hexagon DSPs, Adreno GPUs, IoT, AR/VR, ML/AI, Wireless LAN, GPS, low power audio, and low power sensors).

Job Responsibilities:

• Debug and Analyze the high power issues in APPS SW.

• Find solutions to system level power and resource management problems.

• Influence the hardware design to improve power consumption or simplify the power.

• Conduct hands-on performance, power, and/or thermal studies to help optimize the SW power;

• Effectively communicate experimental results, review with technical leads and peers, analyze outstanding issues;

• Work with software teams, who implement modules that are clients of the power and resource management software, to gather requirements and provide guidance.

• Work with software teams to identify and fix performance bottlenecks that increase power consumption.

• Design tools to identify and debug power consumption issues on development platforms and commercial devices

• Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems;

Preferred Qualification:

• 1 to 3 yrs experience in embedded software development and preferably on mobile or IoT devices

• Experience in programming with at least one programming language like C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

• Ability to approach problems at a system level - One or more of the following: - Device driver or board support package (BSP) knowledge or development experience - Experience with Linux - Understanding of ARM processor architectures - Experience with power optimization

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Experience in using debug tools like JTAG debugger, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers

• Excellent problem solving skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.

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.