Qualcomm
Modem Software Engineer
$109K–$164K
San Diego, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Designs, develops, optimizes, and debugs real-time embedded software for Qualcomm modem systems, including wireless protocol features and AI-assisted development tooling.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize modem firmware across protocol layers, drivers, and platform services, and deliver features through testing and maintenance.
- Develop AI-assisted workflows and tools for coding, review, test synthesis, and crash/log triage.
- Debug modem issues on target hardware and collaborate with systems, hardware, test, and integration teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Design and development of real-time embedded software under latency, memory, and power constraints.
- Data-structure and algorithm design.
Pay
$109,400.00 - $164,200.00 USD base salary
Tools
C/C++, DSP, Arm, 5G NR, LTE, NTN, RTOS
AI focus
Explicitly AI-native role: use and improve code-generation agents, LLM-based code review, automated test synthesis, crash/log triage assistants, and retrieval-augmented codebase tooling; apply AI-assisted analysis to logs, traces, and RAM dumps.
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