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- On-site
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- Santa Clara, CA
- Posted
- 58 days ago
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Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
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As a Senior Staff Firmware Development Engineer at Qualcomm, you will join a dynamic team focused on enabling advanced power management solutions for custom CPUs. Your primary responsibilities include driving the design, implementation, and verification of embedded firmware in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments, contributing to open-source communities, and collaborating with hardware teams to define interprocessor communication interfaces. You will be proficient in C and assembly, have experience with RTOS or OS Kernel development, and work with embedded operating systems like Zephyr and FreeRTOS. Familiarity with ARM v8 architecture is essential as you tackle complex power management challenges across various Qualcomm SoCs, ensuring optimal performance and efficiency for the CPU subsystem.
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What you'll do
- Drive firmware design, implementation, and verification in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
- Define power management solutions for future Qualcomm CPUs.
- Contribute to open-source communities by supporting processor architectures and device drivers.
- Develop interprocessor communication interfaces between embedded controllers and platforms.
- Engage with hardware teams to enable power management features for custom CPUs.
What we're looking for
- BS/BEng in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science with 5+ years of embedded firmware development experience.
- Proficient in writing and debugging C and assembly languages.
- Experience developing drivers in RTOS or OS Kernel environments.
- Familiarity with embedded operating systems like Zephyr, eCos, uC/OS, FreeRTOS.
- Experience defining interprocessor communication interfaces for embedded controllers.
- Knowledge of ARM v8 architecture and pre-silicon development tools.
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