Qualcomm
Compute Hardware Applications Engineer
$90K–$135K
San Diego, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of Hardware Design or Hardware Applications experience or related work experience (preferred qualification).
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Supports customers and internal teams in designing, debugging, and launching Snapdragon-based compute hardware products, from development through mass production.
What you'll do
- Provide customer hardware design support, answer technical questions, and troubleshoot hardware issues.
- Review customer platform block diagrams, schematics, component placement, and PCB routing, including DDR, power delivery, and signal integrity.
- Develop and maintain customer-facing hardware design examples, documentation, and design collateral.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Familiarity with complex multilayer PCB design, schematics, and layout, including power and signal integrity.
- Experience finding root causes of hardware system issues and integrating, debugging, and reproducing problems on internal and customer platforms.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Familiarity with high-speed PCB design and SoC interfaces; programming experience with Python and/or Vbasic.
Pay
$90,200.00 - $135,200.00 (USD, pay range; salary)
Tools
Snapdragon, SoC, LPDDR, MIPI, USB, PCIe, UFS, Python
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