Qualcomm Director Engineering - 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

844696901

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

General Summary:

• Develops, creates, and modifies general computer applications software or specialized utility programs.

• Analyzes user needs and develops software solutions. Designs software or customizes software for client use with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency.

• Modifies existing software to correct errors, allow it to adapt to new hardware, or to improve its performance.

• Analyzes user needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.

• Experience in IOT product design and development with hands on experience for Multimedia and AI/ML software

• Need familiarity with IOT reference platforms and customization of platforms for end use case

• Familiarity with open source architectures and software development

• Confers with product managers, business leads, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.

• Stores, retrieves, and manipulates data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.

• Designs, develops, and modifies software systems, using scientific analysis and mathematical models to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15+ years of Software Engineering or related work.

• 5+ years of experience with IOT and related areas

• 3+ years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.

• 1+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above).

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Gathers, integrates, and interprets information across modules or sub-blocks of code from a variety of sources in order to troubleshoot issues and find solutions.

• Quickly resolves highly complex software issues and bugs.

• Communicates with project lead to provide status and information about impending obstacles and suggests remediation.

• Collaborates with others inside and outside of project team to accomplish project objectives.

• Identifies gaps in design, effort, etc., and closes the gaps.

• Suggests strategies for solving issues during technical meetings.

• Unit tests own code and performs integration testing to verify the stability and functionality of a large feature.

• Serves as a technical leader within area of focus.

• Manages project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables for small projects.

• Performs code reviews on project team's submitted solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

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

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

• 4+ years of experience with debugging techniques.

Level of Responsibility:

• Working independently with little supervision.

• Making decisions that are moderate in impact; errors may have financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships; errors may require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.

• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.

• Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).

• Completing tasks that do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.

• Exercising substantial creativity to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.

• Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.

• Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.

The responsibilities of this role do not include:

• Financial accountability (e.g., does not involve budgeting responsibility).

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.