Senior Staff CPU Software Test Engineer

Qualcomm

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Clara, CA
Salary
$190,200–$285,400 / yr
Posted
40 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Mar 16, 2027

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Above market

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TL;DR · Senior Staff CPU Software Test Engineer

The Sr. Staff CPU Software Test Engineer joins the Software Engineering group to design, develop, and validate embedded and cloud edge software. This role involves creating software and firmware test plans, developing automated test suites, and performing manual testing for mobile, compute, and automotive environments. Key responsibilities include assisting in Quality Engineering processes with a focus on continuous integration and deployment, performing workload analysis, and ensuring operating systems run efficiently regarding power and performance. The position requires proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, and Python. Candidates should possess experience with Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, or Windows server. The work focuses on validating reference platform requirements at component, integration, functional, and system levels for x86, ARM64, and RISC-V 64bit server platforms.

What you'll do

  • Create software and firmware test plans that address requirements traceability and test coverage.
  • Design, develop, and maintain automated software and firmware test suites for functional, integration, and system levels.
  • Manually test the customer experience of hardware and software installation across mobile, compute, and automotive environments.
  • Assist in creating Quality Engineering and Release Engineering processes with a focus on CI/CD.
  • Implement customer use-cases, workload analysis models, and workload creation to achieve production-level software readiness.
  • Perform bring-up, debug, and diagnostic tasks in coordination with other engineering teams.
  • Identify and implement software enhancements to improve power and performance across existing operating systems.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering experience.
  • Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering experience.
  • PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering experience.
  • 3+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
  • 8+ years of experience in Software/Firmware Validation (preferred).
  • Minimum 5 years of software test engineering experience with a focus on Data Center Servers (preferred).
  • Extensive experience with operating systems like Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, or Windows server (preferred).
  • Prior experience with SW/FW integration at BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, or OS for x86/ARM64/RISC-V 64bit for server platforms (preferred).

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