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$122k – $183k per year
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In office (San Diego)
Seniority
Junior · 2+ years exp

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 2, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 21, 2026. Qualcomm scores B on the Alion truth index.

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Qualcomm is an American semiconductor and wireless technology company founded in 1985 and headquartered in San Diego, California. It holds foundational patents in CDMA and the 3G, 4G and 5G cellular standards, licensing them to nearly every handset maker in the world, while its chip division designs the Snapdragon platforms that power a large share of Android smartphones, personal computers, wearables and connected cars. The company has been diversifying away from smartphone dependence into automotive digital cockpit and driver assistance systems, industrial internet of things, and on-device AI processing through its Hexagon and Oryon architectures.

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives communication and data processing transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm ASIC Engineer, you will define, model, design (digital and/or analog), optimize, verify, validate, implement, and document IP (block/SoC) development for a variety of high performance, high quality, low power world class products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional groups to determine product execution path.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field.

The Security System Test Engineer will work as part of Qualcomm’s Hardware Security Team on leading technologies in Qualcomm’s diverse portfolio: Artificial Intelligence, Laptops, IoT, Mobile, Automotive, Wearables, and XR/VR. Product Security Certifications are critical in building customer trust, demonstrating security capabilities, meeting regulations, and ensuring high security assurance. You will be joining a cross functional team of expert hardware and security engineers contributing to the development and certification of Qualcomm Product Portfolio.

You will focus on developing scalable methodologies, software vectors, test benches, test platform assembly, and automation tools for supporting: Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), Security Evaluation Standard for IoT Platforms (SESIP), Common Criteria, Global Platform, and EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The candidate will be expected to work across multiple disciplines from system architects, hardware designers, production test engineers, security analyst, and certification engineers.

Required Skills

  • Experience in Low Level software development in C, C++, and Assembly
  • Excellent knowledge of ARM / RISCV processors
  • Experience with SCM tools (GIT, Perforce)
  • Experience with defect tracking tools (JIRA, CQ)
  • Good communication skills
  • Ability to work with cross functional teams
  • Strong debug skills

Preferred Skills

  • Experience developing software vectors
  • Experienced with Operating Systems Principles
  • Understanding multi-threaded and multi-core computing
  • Working knowledge of software development process (Agile preferred)
  • Knowledge of Security Protocols (Hashing, symmetric and asymmetric cryptography)
  • Develop / Maintain / Port software vectors across a chipset families
  • Debug of software vectors & system initialization using Lauterbach Trace32 / Practice Scripts
  • Experience with developing test methodologies to support:
  • Validating Security Architecture & Engineering Designs meet Security Certification Requirements.
  • Leveraging Lab Instrument Automation to collect large Characterization Data Sets across environmental parameters ranges.
  • Experience with developing test benches that support a diverse range of HW/SW Qualcomm platforms.
  • Developing test vectors to triage and isolate HW/SW faults
  • Experience with Qualcomm Automotive | Mobile | Compute | IOT or XR/VR Plarms.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail [email protected] or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.

EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

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 rangeand Other Compensation & Benefits :

$121,800.00 - $182,600.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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