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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 2, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jun 23, 2026. Qualcomm scores C 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 > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Job Description

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.

Job Overview

  • Create software/firmware test plans, addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage, with respect to feature requirements

  • Design, develop, execute and maintain automated software/firmware test suites for the purpose of verifying quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration and system levels

  • Manually test, where appropriate, the customer experience of installation and deployment of Qualcomm hardware and software in a mobile, compute and automotive environment.

  • Assist in the creation of a Quality Engineering/Release engineering process with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment

  • Assist in achieving production-level software readiness, implement customer use-cases, workload analysis models, workload creation, and collaborating with other teams on bring-up/debug/diags

  • Focus on ensuring that existing Operating Systems and customer usage environments run well, while identifying strong opportunity for enhancements, from a power and performance perspective.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

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

OR

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:

  • 8+ years of experience in Software/Firmware Validation

  • Demonstrated software test engineering in SW/FW engineering with focus on Data Center Servers (minimum 5 years).

  • Strong understanding and experience in software/firmware test automation techniques

  • Extensive experience working with operating systems like Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, similar or Windows server

  • Work with multiple SW/HW Engineering teams to ensure that all requirements and features of reference platform requirements have been validated at a component, integration, functional and system level

  • Strong programming skills with experience in C and/or Python programming languages

  • Experience developing automated software/firmware test cases for server platforms, supporting bring-up and production SW releases

Nice to have:

  • Prior Experience with SW/FW integration at BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, Operating System for x86/ARM64/RISC-V 64bit for server platforms.

  • Strong understanding of Server firmware Standards, opensource Implementation and specifications for ARM64-based servers

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 :

$190,200.00 - $285,400.00

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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