Qualcomm Audio SW Engineer 

China, Shanghai 

41822068

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs. Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.

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.

Responsibilities:

Perform high level requirements analysis, deriving engineering requirements and producing documentation, troubleshooting and maintenance of software applications, framework and drivers.

Manage priorities, monitor progress, and take corrective actions for a collection of tasks to ensure work products are delivered on time and at the required level of quality and performance.

Communicate software development status, including mitigations to issues and risks, to project leads and stakeholders at the appropriate level of detail and complexity.

Exercise effective critical thinking skills to formulate requirements, solve problems, and define steps to complete ambiguous or open-ended tasks or resolve complex issues.

Think out of the box to identify new and innovate existing processes, procedures, or work products to achieve established objectives.

Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years of Embedded Software development with relevant industry experience.

• Excellent C/C++ programming, Python and other scripting language skills with proven experience of writing efficient code for embedded systems and multi-threaded environments.

• Knowledge of software design patterns and multi-threaded programming.

• Knowledge of computer architecture, real time operating systems, data structures, and basic algorithms.

• Understanding of power, memory and performance considerations on embedded systems.

• Background and experience in several of the following areas

• Expertise in Multimedia or Audio software framework design and development.

• Expertise in embedded driver development and debugging.

• Expertise in use of various debug tools and techniques.

• Experience in optimization techniques for memory and performance.

• Expertise developing and debugging software on ARM/DSP, or other embedded, processors and SoCs.

Educational Requirements:

Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer/Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.

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.