Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm & Microsoft Windows Co-Engineering and Co-Development Software Project Engineer should have deep knowledge of the Windows Operating System, Windows Kernel mode & User mode drivers development & debugging techniques, Board Support Package for QCT Compute chipsets (requirements, system architecture, HW—SW contracts, high-level SW design), breadth of expertise and collaborate with other internal & external engineering & business teams to execute smoothly under tight schedules to deliver successful results. 

Primary responsibility is to technically drive BSP & OS features and bugs that require close collaboration and Co-Development with Microsoft successfully and contribute to the success of Windows QCT Compute chipsets business. 

Drive Project Planning Activities 

Collaborate with different Qualcomm & Microsoft technology teams, Product Managers, Customer Engineering, Technical Account Managers to identify features for next generation Windows compute chipsets and plan them through software development life cycle. 

Provide SW assessment of project scope, overall effort and risks 

Collaborate & negotiate with different internal & external organizations on inter dependencies, effort estimations, commitments and support alignment of different software features’ development and delivery schedules. 

Work with all relevant internal and external SW and non-SW teams to ensure overall project plans, commitments and schedule are viable and signed off. 

Participating in product definition with PdMs, feeding SW requirements into product planning (RFP, RFQ) 

Lead ES/FC/CS planning 

Participate in OEM feature planning activities 

Project Execution and Commercialization 

Technically drive these selected complex features with internal & external dependencies through pre-silicon development, integration and post-silicon bring-up, validation and deployment activities. 

Support Windows Hardware Compatibility Program Compliance / Windows Hardware Quality Labs / Hardware Lab Kit activities with IHV drivers’ certification focus. 

Bug management including telemetry reported issues that require close collaboration and co-engineering with Microsoft and 

 Qualcomm technology teams, collaboration tools development and maintenance. Lead day to day Co-Engineering features execution by running SW scrums, system level issue debug and resolution. 

Overall representative in project level forums representing SW team (core team meetings, exec reviews, architecture discussions, cross functional team planning), presenting status on different Co-Engineering and Co-development features development and critical software bugs’ resolution internally and externally. 

Drive lessons learned and continuously improve Co-development and Co-Engineering processes, tools and systems. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

10+ years of work experience in:

Embedded SW for SoC, Windows HLOS and Windows Operating system 

Wireless technologies (CDMA/WCDMA/LTE/5GNR; WLAN; BT) 

MM technologies: Camera, Video, Audio, Display 

AI Technologies knowledge 

Compute ecosystem knowledge 

Power, performance and thermal system optimizations 

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$180,600.00 - $271,000.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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