Qualcomm Sr Staff Engineer - Printer firmware Imaging Software 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

838239587

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

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.

• 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 C++ programming skills with proven experience of writing efficient code for high performance and memory constrained systems.

• Extensive product software development experience in embedded environments.

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

• Expertise in Printer firmware (preferred skills)

• Raster and/or vector print data handling

• Image transformations like scaling, rotation, half-tones, etc.,

• PDLs, Fonts, color space, rendering models, display lists.

• 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.

• Effective leadership skills that should help to plan and deliver the tasks as well as to manage and delegate work to the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 3+ years of 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.