This role pays more than
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$163,000–$219,425
— the shaded band above.
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versus about
$191k
for comparable roles.
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About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
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Listed pay typically runs
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As a Sr. Staff CPU Software Test Engineer, you will join the software engineering team to design, develop, and validate embedded and cloud edge software for mobile, compute, and automotive environments. You will be responsible for creating firmware test plans, ensuring requirements traceability, and developing automated test suites to verify quality at functional, integration, and system levels. Your daily work involves collaborating with hardware and architecture teams to achieve production-level software readiness through workload analysis and bring-up debugging. The role requires proficiency in C, C++, or Python, along with experience in operating systems like Ubuntu Server, RHEL, or SUSE. You will focus on optimizing power and performance while validating server platforms involving BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, and architectures such as x86, ARM64, and RISC-V 64bit to ensure robust system-level software solutions.
Python
Go
C/C++
Embedded Systems
Linux
Android
Windows
Test Automation
Computer Vision
AI/ML
Graphics
Multimedia
Data Analytics
Root-cause Analysis
Firmware
Middleware