Qualcomm Software Project Engineer Senior Staff 

United States, Washington 

999178097

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

Qualcomm & Microsoft Windows Co-Engineering and Co-Development Software Project Engineer should have deep knowledge of the Windows Operating System, Windows Kernel mode & User mode drivers development & debugging techniques, Board Support Package for QCT Compute chipsets (requirements, system architecture, HW—SW contracts, high-level SW design), breadth of expertise and collaborate with other internal & external engineering & business teams to execute smoothly under tight schedules to deliver successful results.

Primary responsibility is to technically drive BSP & OS features and bugs that require close collaboration and Co-Development with Microsoft successfully and contribute to the success of Windows QCT Compute chipsets business.

Drive Project Planning Activities

• Collaborate with different Qualcomm & Microsoft technology teams, Product Managers, Customer Engineering, Technical Account Managers to identify features for next generation Windows compute chipsets and plan them through software development life cycle.

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

• Collaborate & negotiate with different internal & external organizations on inter dependencies, effort estimations, commitments and support alignment of different software features’ development and delivery schedules.

• Work with all relevant internal and external 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)

• Lead ES/FC/CS planning

• Participate in OEM feature planning activities

Project Execution and Commercialization

Technically drive these selected complex features with internal & external dependencies through pre-silicon development, integration and post-silicon bring-up, validation and deployment activities.

Support Windows Hardware Compatibility Program Compliance / Windows Hardware Quality Labs / Hardware Lab Kit activities with IHV drivers’ certification focus.

Bug management including telemetry reported issues that require close collaboration and co-engineering with Microsoft and

Drive lessons learned and continuously improve Co-development and Co-Engineering processes, tools and systems.

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:

10+ years of work experience in:

• Embedded SW for SoC, Windows HLOS and Windows Operating system

• 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.

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$180,600.00 - $271,000.00