Qualcomm
Firmware Development Engineer, Staff
$160K–$239K
Santa Clara, California +2 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Austin, Texas
San Diego, California - Experience
- 6+ years with a bachelor's degree, 5+ years with a master's degree, or 4+ years with a PhD; also 3+ years of programming-language work experience. Preferred: 5 years’ embedded firmware development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field. Preferred: MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science (or equivalent professional experience).
About the job
Develops and verifies embedded firmware for power management and related management-controller functions on Qualcomm custom CPUs and SoCs.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and verify firmware in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
- Help define power management solutions for future CPU generations and contribute to open-source processor, driver, and firmware support.
- Collaborate on platform bring-up, debug, diagnostics, firmware lifecycle, and related activities.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a related field plus 6+ years of software engineering or related work experience; or master's plus 5+ years; or PhD plus 4+ years.
- 3+ years of work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
Nice to have
- Embedded firmware development experience; MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science (or equivalent professional experience) is preferred.
- Proficiency in C and assembly, driver development in RTOS or OS kernels, or experience with embedded operating systems, pre-silicon environments, interprocessor communication, or ARMv8.
Pay
$159,600.00 - $239,400.00 USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Java, Python, assembly, Zephyr, eCos, µC/OS
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