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Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary:
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 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Ph D in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

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

General Summary:

QCT is looking for software engineers to help our customers to enable best possible user experience of IVI/ADAS products on Qualcomm’s automotive platforms. You will be responsible for optimizing performance & root-causing performance-related issues when use-cases are running on Snapdragon Automotive chipsets.

Responsibilities:

• Profile, analyze the traces and optimize the performance of complex concurrent applications running on OSes such as QNX, Linux and Android running Natively as well as in virtual environments on Qualcomm Automotive platforms.
• Enable new use-cases & benchmarks on Auto platforms working with multiple HW & SW teams.
• Analyze Performance KPIs of Automotive use-cases such as Booting, Multimedia (Camera, Display, Video playback), ADAS (Front and Surround camera perception, Driver Monitoring, Parking stack), Maps & Navigation, Rear-seat entertainment etc. Correlate performance with projections from the systems team.
• Optimize the booting KPI to meet customer needs.
• Profile/analysis the popular benchmarks KPI of CPU/GPU/DDR/IO,etc.
• Profile system memory footprint and drive the optimizations across teams.
• Debug/optimize UX performance like FPS/Latency.
• Characterize/Analysis the hypervisor performance.

• Maintain & publish a performance dashboard across all critical use-cases.
• Work with customers to root-cause performance issues and lead deep-dive debugs of customer use-cases.

• Collaborate with cross-functional global teams to plan, execute performance activities on Auto chipsets.

• Writing or enhance debugging tools for easy debugging/profiling performance issues.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years of SW development experience on Linux.
• Very good problem solving, program and debug skills with proficiency in C/C++ is mandatory.
• Experience in performance tuning work on embedded system is mandatory.
• Experience with Linux kernel development is mandatory.
• Must be self-motivated, good team player.
• Experience in auto industry is a plus.
• Experience with Virtual Machine is a plus.
• Experience with QNX/Gunyah is a plus.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

OR

• Master's degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of System Engineering or related work experience.

All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.


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