Qualcomm
Staff Software Engineer — SubSystem Integration Test (SSIT)
$141K–$212K
San Diego, California · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- Bachelor's + 4+ years, or Master's + 3+ years, or PhD + 2+ years; also requires 2+ years of programming-language work experience. Preferred: Bachelor's + 8 years or Master's + 6 years in a related field.
- Education
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
About the job
Owns subsystem-level integration testing for Qualcomm’s Delegates portfolio, partnering with developers to validate features before handoff to QA and system integration testing.
What you'll do
- Define feature test strategy, acceptance criteria, coverage targets, and SSIT-to-QA/SIT handoff criteria.
- Build and run automated and on-device tests; triage failures across ML frameworks, QNN runtime, and HTP hardware.
- Integrate SSIT automation into CI, maintain traceability, and serve as the technical liaison to QA/SIT.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a related field and 4+ years of software engineering or related experience; or master's and 3+ years; or PhD and 2+ years.
- 2+ years of work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
Nice to have
- Hands-on automated test framework experience (PyTest or equivalent), subsystem/integration testing, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
- Experience with ML inference frameworks and Qualcomm QNN, HTP/DSP, or Snapdragon on-device validation.
Pay
$141,300.00 - $211,900.00 USD base salary
Tools
ONNX Runtime, QNN Execution Provider, ExecuTorch, HTP, TFLite, LiteRT, Python, PyTest
AI focus
Develop and leverage AI-assisted tooling and agentic workflows (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate test content generation, coverage analysis, and failure triage.
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