Drimva

Qualcomm

Senior Embedded Software Engineer (Cloud Edge & Data Center Machine Learning)

$118K–$177K

San Diego, California · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026

Experience
2+ years of work experience with low-level C programming. Minimum qualifications: bachelor's degree and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience; OR master's degree and 1+ year; OR PhD. Also 2+ years of academic or work experience with a programming language.
Education
Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.

About the job

Develops and commercializes embedded software and firmware for cloud edge and data center machine-learning use cases on high-performance silicon.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, and commercialize software and firmware solutions.
  • Contribute to technologies including ML acceleration, process in memory, memory management, and virtualization.
  • Work with internal and cross-functional teams.

What they ask for

  • 2+ years of work experience with low-level C programming; the qualifications also specify 2+ years of academic or work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
  • Proficiency in C development, debugging, testing, and unit testing; embedded-platform development and stop-mode debug tools such as JTAG/SWD are specified.
  • Skills in BSP and device-driver development, board bring-up, RTOS, secure boot, and TrustZone architecture.
  • Experience with Embedded Linux development and build tools; RTOS fundamentals, SoC architecture, multithreaded programming, and Git/Gerrit are also specified.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, and Llama.cpp.
  • Familiarity with interfaces including PCIe, LPDDR, USB, and UFS; Qualcomm QuRT RTOS and related on-chip middleware are also listed.

Pay

$117,800.00 - $176,600.00 (base salary)

Tools

C, GNU/LLVM, JTAG/SWD, Embedded Linux, git/Gerrit, PyTorch, JAX, Llama.cpp

AI focus

Develops embedded software and firmware for cloud edge and data center machine-learning use cases, contributing to ML acceleration and related technologies.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)