Qualcomm Chipset Software PE Director 

United States, California, San Diego 

997177096

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

The Software Project Engineer should have deep knowledge of the Snapdragon product (requirements, system architecture, HW—SW contracts, high-level SW design), breadth of expertise and collaborate with other engineering & business teams to execute smoothly under tight schedules to deliver successful results.

Drive Project Planning Activities

• Provide SW assessment of project scope, overall effort and risks

• Work with all relevant SW and non-SW teams to ensure overall project plans, commitments and schedule are viable and signed off

• Participating in product definition with PdMs, feeding SW requirements into product planning (RFP, RFQ)

• HW HLDR participation as main SW representative influencing and driving HW decision in order to minimize SW impact

• Lead ES/FC/CS planning

• Work with CE and TAMs to plan OEM releases

• Participate in OEM feature planning activities

• Participate in Windows OS feature planning

Project Execution and Commercialization

• Overall representative in project level forums representing SW team (core team meetings, exec reviews, architecture discussions, cross functional team planning

• Lead SW pre-Si planning and SW workshops ensuring end to end pre-Si effort covers all areas required for successful TO and bring up. Ensure all risky system use cases are planned for and executed.

• Key driver in ensuring full SW functionality, including cross functional/system features, are delivered from all aspects (dev, integration, test, debug).

• Lead day to day project execution by running SW scrums, system level issue debug and resolution

• Lead Bring up planning and workshops ensuring SOD is executed with utmost precision and efficiency, on all platforms

• Lead SW bring up effort, typically 6-8 weeks of around the clock effort across all SW teams

• Lead ES/FC/CS efforts and ensuring all quality, KPIs and customer criteria is met.

• Providing daily tactical decision making for all teams involved – dev, test, integration and debug

• Central person in driving internal and external cross functional issues, leading all relevant teams involved

• Work with CE and TAMs. Help integrate customer demands and plans into overall SW plan and execute per customer commitments.

• Collaborate with Microsoft for OS features and bug resolution\

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Embedded SW for SoC, Windows HLOS and RTOS systems

• Wireless technologies (CDMA/WCDMA/LTE/5GNR; WLAN; BT)

• MM technologies: Camera, Video, Audio, Display

• AI Technologies knowledge

• Compute ecosystem knowledge

• Power, performance and thermal system optimizations

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:

$207,600.00 - $311,400.00