Sr. Staff Engineer, CPU Software Test Engineer (Server)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Feb 26, 2026. Qualcomm scores B on the Alion truth index.
Company:
Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software EngineeringGeneral 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
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