Qualcomm Sr Staff Windows Software Architecture 

United States, California 

23698557

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

The Ideal Candidate will have:

• Embedded Windows software and good programming skills.

• Solid understanding of Operating System concepts.

• Windows and/or Linux kernel and development experience.

• Experience with UEFI/BIOS features, security features, Windows driver development, Windows applications development

• 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 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.

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.

• Strong ability to drive technical engagements with external partners and customers.

• Expertise in IT enterprise process flows and organizational requirements.

• Windows PC ecosystem experience

• UEFI/BIOS features, security features, Windows driver development, Windows applications development experience

• C, C++, Windows debugger, ability to be hands-on the hardware and software.

• 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:

$152,000.00 - $228,000.00