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The successful candidate will develop scalable automation infrastructure for test orchestration, resource management, test execution, results analysis, and failure triage across pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.\nThe role requires strong programming and debugging skills, solid systems knowledge, and the ability to take complex technical problems from design through implementation and deployment. The engineer will work closely with software, validation, infrastructure, and SoC teams to deliver reliable automation capabilities used across data center programs.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, develop, test, and maintain software for data center chipset and platform test automation.\nBuild scalable solutions for test orchestration, job automation, resource management, test execution, monitoring, results processing, and failure analysis.\nDevelop robust software and backend services using Python, REST APIs, databases, distributed systems, and modern web technologies.\nDesign reusable APIs and automation frameworks that enable integration of new chipsets, workloads, platforms, and test environments.\nTroubleshoot complex problems spanning software services, automation infrastructure, compute resources, test environments, and target platforms.\nImprove the performance, reliability, scalability, observability, and maintainability of existing automation systems.\nWork closely with data center, SoC, software, validation, and infrastructure teams to translate engineering requirements into practical software solutions.\nContribute to architecture and design decisions, conduct code/design reviews, and provide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers.\nMinimum Requirements\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nStrong professional software engineering background with demonstrated experience building complex, production-quality software systems.\nStrong Python programming skills and solid knowledge of software design, APIs, data structures, algorithms, and software engineering best practices.\nExperience with Linux, distributed systems, REST services, databases, SQL, and software automation.\nExperience developing systems that manage parallel or distributed workloads.\nStrong debugging and problem-solving skills across applications, services, infrastructure, and automation environments.\nAbility to independently own complex technical problems from design and implementation through testing and deployment.\nAbility to collaborate effectively across multiple engineering disciplines and contribute to technical design and architecture decisions.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience developing automation or software infrastructure for data center silicon, CPUs, GPUs, AI accelerators, DSPs, NPUs, or heterogeneous SoCs.\nExperience with test automation, validation infrastructure, job orchestration, resource scheduling, or device-management systems.\nFamiliarity with data center compute architectures and workloads, including compute-intensive and AI/ML workloads.\nExperience with pre-silicon and/or post-silicon validation.\nExperience with cloud infrastructure, containers, distributed compute, CI/CD, telemetry, and observability.\nExperience developing platforms, services, or APIs used by multiple engineering teams.\nMinimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.OR\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.\nOR\nPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.\n• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.\nQualcomm 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  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).\nTo 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.\nEEO 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.\nQualcomm 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.\nPay rangeand Other Compensation & Benefits :\n$141,300.00 - $211,900.00The 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. 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