Qualcomm
Senior Engineer, DDR Customer Engineering Software
$125K–$188K
Santa Clara, California · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- Bachelor’s degree route: 2+ years; the posting also lists a Master’s degree route and a PhD route. The minimum qualifications separately state 1+ year of programming experience and 1+ year of debugging experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in a related field.
About the job
Enables and validates DDR memory subsystems on Qualcomm platforms, resolving system-level issues, optimizing performance, and supporting customers through product deployment.
What you'll do
- Support DDR enablement and platform bring-up across firmware, bootloaders, and operating systems; investigate and resolve memory and system issues.
- Analyze and optimize DDR performance, including bandwidth, latency, power, and stability; develop debug and validation tools and methods.
- Collaborate with customers and internal hardware and software teams on configuration, tuning, issue triage, and technical escalations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 2+ years of software engineering experience, or a Master’s or PhD in a related field.
- Experience programming in C/C++.
- Experience developing, debugging, and optimizing software in Linux or embedded system environments.
- Experience analyzing and debugging complex software and system-level issues.
Nice to have
- Understanding of DDR/DRAM architectures and JEDEC memory standards, including DDR5.
- Experience with firmware, bootloaders, platform initialization, BSP development, or kernel bring-up.
Pay
$125,400.00 - $188,200.00 USD (salary)
Tools
C/C++, Linux, Python, DDR5, Android, QNX, JEDEC
AI focus
Supports next-generation edge AI platforms; no specific AI development work is stated.
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