Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm is the leading provider of smartphone SoCs and software technology in the world. Our technology solutions bring function and high-speed wireless connectivity to mobile devices, powering the majority of smartphones around the globe. As part of the audio software global development team at Qualcomm, you will have the opportunity to work with an international team of hardware, systems, and software engineers to develop and integrate cutting edge audio technology on Linux platforms powered by Qualcomm SoCs. Qualcomm SoCs provide integrated solutions for smart phone, computing, entertainment, automotive, connectivity, and IoT products worldwide. The Linux audio software team drives the feature design, development, integration, and commercialization of audio software and applications on Qualcomms Snapdragon processors. Seeking passionate, ambitious, and technically gifted software engineers for developing embedded audio and voice software for smart phones, smart speakers, smart assistants, smart media boxes, and a wide array of other smart devices for the mobile, compute, connectivity, automotive, and IoT product spaces. At the same time,  Qualcomm audio software team, as technology leader, is embarking on a journey to expand its contribution to open source ecosystem.  You will have the opportunity to be part of the initiative to build up an open source project from infancy and engage with developers from broader audio software ecosystem in order to gain wider community support for the project. Please apply if interested and prepared for this exciting but challenging opportunity.  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

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

Preferred Qualifications:

5 Years' Embedded System Development Experience:

• Experienced in developing and debugging software on ARM running Linux and DSP platforms
• Understanding of power and performance considerations on embedded systems particularly with respect to ARM linux and DSP platforms
• Strong understanding in serial bus interfaces I2C, SPI
• Experienced in Linux kernel architecture and device driver development, debugging, upstreaming

Multimedia/Audio Experience

• Experienced with multimedia framework especially audio focus ones such as Pipewire, and ALSA
• Have general understanding in audio signal processing
• Experienced in audio usage models including playback, recording, voice activation, voice call, audio context detection
• Familiar with standard audio bus interfaces (I2S, TDM, SoundWire)
• Familiar with driver development for audio mixed signal peripherals  (CODEC, speaker amp, digital microphone)

Open Source Experience :

• Passionate contributor or maintainer of established open source projects
• Understand open source community development, engagement, and upstreaming workflow
• Experienced in both open source & product commercialization process

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EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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