Qualcomm
Firmware Development Principal Engineer
$221K–$332K
Santa Clara, California +2 · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Austin, Texas
Austin, TX - Experience
- 8+ years with a bachelor’s, 7+ with a master’s, or 6+ with a PhD; also requires 4+ years of programming-language work experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field. Preferred qualification also accepts equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Develops and validates firmware for CPU performance and power management on Qualcomm custom CPUs and SoCs, including platform enablement, characterization, and tuning.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, and verify firmware in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.
- Help define CPU performance management solutions for future Qualcomm CPU generations.
- Contribute processor architecture, device-driver, and firmware support in open-source communities; collaborate on platform bring-up and debugging.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 8+ years of software engineering or related experience; or master’s degree and 7+ years; or PhD and 6+ years.
- 4+ years of work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
Nice to have
- Embedded firmware development; C and assembly; driver development in RTOS or OS kernel environments; embedded OS experience; pre-silicon development; CPU performance-management tuning; or ARM v8 familiarity.
Pay
$221,100.00 - $331,700.00 USD base salary
Tools
C, C++, Java, Python, assembly, RTOS, Zephyr, eCos
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