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This role requires strong system-level expertise across Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, DSP, connectivity, power management, and AI-enabled systems.\nThe successful candidate will contribute to platform bring-up, subsystem integration, performance optimization, customer issue resolution, and product commercialization while working closely with cross-functional engineering teams.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop and integrate platform software across Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, firmware, middleware, and subsystem interfaces.\nSupport platform bring-up, feature enablement, and software readiness for new silicon programs.\nInvestigate and resolve complex issues spanning hardware, firmware, kernel, middleware, and application layers.\nAnalyze and optimize system behavior across power, performance, memory, thermal, reliability, and user experience dimensions.\nDiagnose issues involving CPU, DSP, GPU, memory, storage, clocks, regulators, thermal management, and connectivity subsystems.\nCollaborate with silicon, firmware, validation, and software teams to deliver high-quality platform solutions.\nDrive customer issue investigations from problem identification through root-cause analysis and resolution.\nContribute to automation, observability, and engineering productivity initiatives.\nTechnical Leadership\nDrive technical execution within assigned platform and subsystem domains.\nApply structured debugging techniques including instrumentation, tracing, failure reproduction, cross-system correlation, and root-cause isolation.\nUtilize profiling and observability tools to identify bottlenecks and validate optimizations.\nParticipate in architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical problem solving.\nContribute to technical decisions involving performance, power, reliability, cost, and schedule trade-offs.\nMentor junior engineers and promote software quality and debugging best practices.\nLeverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development efficiency and engineering productivity.\nProgram Execution\nOwn execution of assigned features and technical deliverables.\nSupport milestone planning, risk identification, and issue tracking.\nDrive closure of critical software defects impacting product readiness.\nSupport product validation, characterization, and performance analysis activities.\nCollaborate across engineering disciplines to meet schedule and quality goals.\nCustomer & Stakeholder Engagement\nParticipate in customer debugging sessions and technical reviews.\nSupport analysis and resolution of customer-reported issues and escalations.\nCommunicate technical status, risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders.\nWork closely with architects, program managers, and engineering teams to ensure successful execution.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.\nExperience in embedded systems, BSP, RTOS, Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, firmware, kernel, or platform software development.\nStrong programming skills in C/C++.\nExperience with system-level debugging, performance analysis, and software integration.\nUnderstanding of modern SoC architectures and subsystem interactions.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, DSP, GPU, modem, connectivity, PMIC, power management, and AI accelerator subsystems.\nExperience with platform bring-up, subsystem integration, performance tuning, crash analysis, and reliability engineering.\nFamiliarity with system profiling, tracing, observability, and debug tools.\nUnderstanding of system-level trade-offs across power, performance, memory, thermal, and user experience metrics.\nExperience using AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, Claude CLI, GitHub Copilot, MCP agents, and related workflows.\nMinimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.OR\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.\nOR\nPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.\n• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.\nApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. 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