Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Engineer to join our embedded software team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in low-level driver development, embedded system architecture, and hardware-software interaction. The role involves debugging, and optimizing software components for next-generation embedded platforms.

The candidate should possess a solid understanding of processor architecture, memory management, cache behavior, clocking systems, power management, and peripheral interfaces. Experience working closely with hardware teams during SoC bring-up, platform validation, and issue debugging is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities

- Work on device bring-up, platform initialization, and hardware enablement activities.
- Debug complex system-level issues involving hardware and software interactions.
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, validation, and system teams to ensure feature delivery and product stability.
- Analyze system crashes, performance bottlenecks, and power-related issues.
- Optimize software for performance, power efficiency, and memory utilization.
- Support integration and validation of new peripherals and subsystems.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Develop diagnostic tools, scripts, and automation to improve engineering productivity.
- Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical Engineering
- 5+ years of experience in embedded software development.
- Robust programming skills in C/C++.
- Experience developing and debugging low-level software drivers.
- Solid understanding of:
- Embedded system architecture




- Device drivers and hardware interfaces
- Memory management concepts
- Cache architecture and optimization
- MMU (Memory Management Unit) concepts and address translation
- Clock architecture and clock management
- PMIC (Power Management IC) fundamentals
- Interrupt handling and DMA concepts

- Experience working with common embedded peripherals such as:

- UART
- SPI
- I2C/I3C
- GPIO
- USB
- PCIe
- Ufs/emmc/sd

- Experience using debugging tools such as JTAG, Lauterbach, or equivalent.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with ARM-based SoC platforms.
- Understanding of boot flows, firmware, and system initialization.
- Experience with Linux Kernel driver development or RTOS environments.
- Knowledge of power management, clock frameworks, and subsystem interactions.
- Experience with system performance analysis and optimization.
- Familiarity with crash dump analysis and root cause investigation.
- Exposure to security, virtualization, and memory protection concepts.
- Experience with source control systems such as Git or Perforce.

Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Desired Competencies

- Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work independently on complex technical problems.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead technical discussions and mentor junior engineers.
- Strong ownership and accountability for product quality and delivery.

📌 Senior Engineer - Embedded Software & Driver Development (Hyderabad)
🏢 Qualcomm
📍 Hyderabad