Staff Software Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General

Summary

Qualcomm’s Open Source Engineering (OSEng) team enables Qualcomm to use, contribute to, and distribute products with open-source software. OSEng influences policy, analyzes software composition, and builds and maintains the tooling and infrastructure that supports these activities. The team has multi-disciplinary experience and skills, spanning full-stack development, infrastructure, and compliance.

Your work will include developing web applications, services, automation, and workflows to generate Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), optimize the open-source review process, and support open development at Qualcomm. You will develop the applications and systems that power these efforts. This includes integrating with engineering tools and systems, troubleshooting and scripting in a Linux environment, reviewing data to troubleshoot issues, and working with IT and release engineering to investigate problems in engineering environments. You will interact directly with end-users and stakeholders across the company to resolve problems, gather requirements, and provide support to our compliance, legal, and product engineering teams.

Responsibilities

· Design, develop, maintain, and support full-stack web applications and services

· Build and extend automation and workflows to optimize the open-source review process

· Collaborate with end-users to gather requirements and resolve issues

Minimum

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Required Skills

· Strong Python web development experience

· Expertise with Django and React

· Experience building asynchronous task pipelines with Celery and RabbitMQ

· Solid SQL skills; experience with PostgreSQL preferred

· Proficiency with Git

· Comfortable working in a Linux environment, including shell scripting and troubleshooting

· Strong communication and problem-solving skills

· Proactive and self-directed, with a strong sense of ownership over the quality and outcomes of your work

· Detail-oriented with the ability to document issues and resolutions clearly

Preferred Skills

· Experience with the open-source ecosystem, license compliance tooling (FOSSID, ScanCode-toolkit), and SBOM standards (SPDX, CycloneDX)

· Experience with additional frontend frameworks (Redux, RTK)

· Experience with Docker and writing Dockerfiles

· Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration

· Understanding of open-source licensing models and compliance workflows

· Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or Prefect

· Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows

· Experience developing applications using LLMs or agentic frameworks

Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience

· 3-5 years of relevant software development experience

· Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle

· Understanding of web service, application, and microservice architectures

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$134,800.00 - $202,200.00

The 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. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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