Staff Engineer - Core Platform Bootloader

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Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group >

Software Engineering

General Summary

You will be part of the Core Platform bootloader team enabling diverse Qualcomm SoCs to boot all the way from ROM firmware till OS entry. Areas this team works on include several stages of system initialization, secure boot and authentication, platform and device configurations, execution environment enablement across new emerging CPU architectures, enabling latest industry tuned peripherals and interfaces, multicore and multithreaded scheduler based boot initializations, next?gen volatile (DDRx) and non?volatile memory (UFS, NVMe, eMMC, NAND, SPI?NOR, etc) device and interfaces (USB, PCIe) initializations and device driver development.

You will be expected to collaborate closely with a team of engineers from multiple SW and firmware technology teams, besides product verification, system, architecture, tools and test teams, to instrument the firmware features and meet the myriad use cases for Qualcomm internal, OEM customization and commercialization. You will be highly motivated engineer, a team player who is passionate to learn new technologies and write low level firmware that drives hardware and SoC. You are expected to be comfortable in engaging with open source communities. Prior active open source firmware development is a plus.

Your Responsibilities May Include, But Not Limited To

• Design, development and integration of SoC firmware features, diagnostics and test capabilities for QCT boot platforms.
• Strong coordination and collaboration across wide range of technical areas to include software, hardware, ASIC, integration, architecture, emulation and simulation teams.
• Drive S / W architecture changes with open source communities based on Qualcomm H / W requirements.
• Paying attention to the details during all phases of firmware design, development, integration, testing and release.
• Work with Virtual Platforms, Emulation platforms, HW simulation platforms, HW design teams, as necessary, in verifying and debugging firmware, driver and resolving platform issues.
• Efficient and secure (i.e. cognizant of not exposing security exploits) coding plus driving code review of firmware logic updates with all required stakeholders.
• On time execution of defined tasks and deliverables, driving dependencies with other teams to closure.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Skills Are a Plus

Education Requirements

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Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits

$134,800.00 $202,200.00

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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