Company:
Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary:
Staff Engineer / Manager
DSP Firmware, Linux/HLOS & Embedded Systems
Location: Bangalore, India
We are looking for a hands-on technical leader to drive architecture, development, and delivery of high-performance DSP firmware, Linux/HLOS integration, and platform software for next-generation SoC platforms. The role requires deep expertise in real-time embedded systems, low-level processor software, system integration, performance optimization, customer engagement, and technical team leadership.
The successful candidate will own critical firmware and platform components, guide hardware-software interfaces, and drive technical decisions from pre-silicon development and silicon bring-up through product commercialization.
Responsibilities
DSP Firmware, Linux/HLOS Architecture & Ownership
Define software architecture for real-time DSP and processor subsystems, including integration with Linux-based high-level operating systems (HLOS).




Own low-level software spanning boot, board support packages, RTOS integration, DSP services, Linux kernel and user-space interfaces, device drivers, middleware, system services, and developer frameworks.
Drive architecture decisions balancing deterministic latency, throughput, power, memory footprint, reliability, security, and scalability.
Influence hardware-software partitioning, DSP workload offload, host-subsystem interfaces, and the long-term platform roadmap.
Define scalable software models for single-core, multi-core, and heterogeneous compute configurations.
Technical Leadership
Lead resolution of complex system issues spanning DSP and processor cores, silicon, firmware, RTOS, Linux/HLOS, kernel and user-space drivers, middleware, and host software.
Drive multi-core and heterogeneous compute architecture, DSP workload partitioning, Linux/HLOS offload, and real-time scheduling.
Guide interrupt, exception, tim

📌 Staff Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Bengaluru