Qualcomm
Firmware Development Engineer, Sr. Staff
$190K–$285K
Santa Clara, California +2 · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Austin, Texas
San Diego, California - Experience
- 6+ years with a bachelor's degree, 5+ with a master's, or 4+ with a PhD; also requires 3+ years with a programming language. Preferred qualifications separately cite 5 years in embedded firmware development.
- Education
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field. Preferred qualifications also accept equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Develop and verify CPU power-management and management-controller firmware for Qualcomm SoCs, collaborating with hardware, firmware, and platform teams across pre-silicon and post-silicon development.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and verify firmware, including CPU power-management solutions for future Qualcomm CPUs.
- Contribute to management-controller firmware for power management, boot, RAS, debugging, security, and runtime services; support platform bring-up and debugging.
- Engage with open-source communities on processor architectures, drivers, and firmware, and collaborate on platform enablement and future designs.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and 6+ years of software engineering or related experience; or master's and 5+ years; or PhD and 4+ years.
- 3+ years of work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Proficiency writing and debugging C and assembly.
- Driver development in RTOS or OS-kernel environments and experience developing for embedded operating systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with pre-silicon simulators and FPGA emulation; defining interprocessor communication interfaces.
- Familiarity with ARM v8 architecture; ARMV8 platform development experience is a plus.
Pay
$190,200.00 - $285,400.00 USD base salary
Tools
C, assembly, C++, Java, Python, Zephyr, eCos, uC/OS, FreeRTOS
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