Engineer, Staff
Qualcomm · Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 58d ago
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Platform Software Embedded Systems
Location: Bangalore, India
We are looking for a hands-on technical leader to drive platform software architecture, execution, customer engagements, and team development for next-generation SoC platforms.
This role requires deep expertise in embedded systems, strong architectural judgment, and the ability to lead engineers while remaining close to the technology. The successful candidate will own critical platform software components and drive technical decisions from silicon bring-up through product commercialization.
Responsibilities - Platform Architecture Ownership
- Define software architecture for new SoC and platform programs.
- Own platform software spanning bootloaders, BSP, RTOS, middleware, system services, and developer frameworks.
- Drive architecture decisions balancing performance, power, reliability, security, and scalability.
- Influence hardware/software partitioning and long-term platform roadmap.
- Technical Leadership
- Lead resolution of complex system-level issues spanning silicon, firmware, BSP, RTOS, middleware, and platform infrastructure.
- Drive architecture and implementation of:
- Multi-core and heterogeneous compute systems
- Big.Little architectures and workload partitioning
- Power management, DVFS, sleep states, and runtime power optimization
- Clock, reset, interrupt, timer, and power domain frameworks
- Memory architecture including DDR, PSRAM, XIP, DMA, MPU/MMU, cache management, and coherency
- Boot architecture, image loading, secure boot, subsystem startup, and recovery mechanisms
- IPC frameworks, shared memory communication, subsystem management, SSR, and ramdump infrastructure
- Platform security, memory protection, and system isolation mechanisms
- Silicon enablement, board bring-up, and platform stabilization
- Drive performance, power, memory, stability, and reliability optimization across the platform.
- 11+ years of experience in embedded software, firmware, BSP, or platform software development.
- Expert-level proficiency in C/C++.
- Strong experience with Zephyr, FreeRTOS, Embedded Linux, or similar environments.
- Deep understanding of:
- RTOS internals
- BSP architecture
- Device drivers
- Boot architectures
- Memory subsystems
- Power management frameworks
- Multi-core system design
- IPC and subsystem frameworks
- Silicon bring-up and productization
- Proven experience delivering products from silicon bring-up through production.
- Strong debugging skills across hardware and software boundaries.
- Experience managing engineers while remaining technically hands-on.
- Strong customer-facing communication and leadership skills.
- Proficient in leveraging AI-assisted development tools to accelerate development and improve efficiency.
- 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 languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
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DdrFreertosprogramming languageFirmwareBspProgrammingEmbedded SoftwareEmbedded LinuxCachepower managementplatform architectureEmbedded SystemsdebuggingJavaArchitectureMiddlewareLinuxArtificial IntelligenceCache Management
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