Software Engineer, Staff - Windows on Snapdragon
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 21, 2026. Qualcomm scores B on the Alion truth index.
Company:
Qualcomm Intl Inc., Mexico Branch OfficeJob Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software EngineeringGeneral Summary:
Qualcomm Technologies Inc., the maker of the industry-leading Snapdragon SoCs, is the largest provider of complete chipset solutions for Microsoft Windows on Snapdragon products. Qualcomm is committed to developing solutions for the next generation of Windows on Snapdragon devices.
The ideal software engineer will act as a key member of an Agile Scrum Team and play a pivotal role in the end-to-end lifecycle of all Windows-on-Snapdragon product lines. Strong software development skills that will allow you to act as both a leader and hands-on contributor to gather requirements, design, and develop improvements to the Windows-on-Snapdragon continuous integration build systems, software release process, and developer operations tools. Communication and collaboration skills are essential as part of this platform team as you will need to coordinate with internal and external teams to bring up, support, triage, and unblock issues on Qualcomm chipsets.
We are seeking a highly skilled Full-Stack developer with expertise in Python and C#. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both front-end and back-end development, a history of delivering high-quality software solutions, and the ability to lead and independently develop features and technical solutions.
The Ideal Candidate will have:
- Design, develop, test, and maintain web applications using Python and C#.
- Implement front-end interfaces using ASP.net, HTML,CSS, and JavaScript
- Design and maintain SQL databases, write efficient SQL queries, and optimize database performance.
- Develop and maintain scripts using PowerShell, CMD and BAT for automation.
- Solid understanding and practical experience in version control(Git, Perforce).
- Embedded Windows software and good programming skills.
- Solid understanding of Operating System concepts.
- Windows and/or Linux kernel and development experience.
- Strong understanding of Python, C/C++/C#, SQL, Shell Scripting.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills.
- Ability to co-ordinate across stakeholders and drive towards task completion.
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
PhD 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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
- 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- C# and Python programming experience.
- MS SQL Database experience.
- Windows OS internals knowledge and experience
- Device driver programming and debugging with WinDbg, JTAG/other tools.
- Processor architecture and cache subsystem.
- Experience with PC software - System BIOS, UEFI, ACPI, Drivers, Applications
- Experience with Jenkins and Artifactory.
- Experience with Windows driver development.
- Proficiency in using Visual Studio as an integrated development environment.
- ARM assembly
- Embedded OS (Kernel architecture, OS services heap, memory, multi-core, multi-threading, and crash debugging).
- Knowledge of OS/system performance profiling and optimization techniques.
- Communication, written & interpersonal skills, motivation, the ability to learn quickly.
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