Software CPU Lead Engineer Senior

General Summary:

Qualcomm's software CPU (aka application processor) architecture group develops long-term software roadmaps (for a horizon of three to five years). It is responsible for defining architecture specifications, developing prototypes, and engaging with the software and hardware worldwide partners to influence products development. It is also acting as an operational execution team enabling commercialization of the most up-to-date worldwide CPUs integrated in Snapdragons chipsets for markets such as: Handsets, IOT devices, Automotive, Compute/Laptops, XR, etc.

• Has primarily worked in embedded domain with atleast 6-9 years of experience in work that involves deep understanding of CPU architecture (and micro-architecture) and associated concepts - caching, coherency, prefetching, speculation, branch prediction etc.
• Excellent C/ C++ programming skills especially writing code for high throughput or memory constrained systems. Experience in the embedded domain to design, develop and support software solutions on multi-core ARM/CPUs.
• Embedded Platforms experience including low-level drivers and firmware, kernel, and user-space components.
• Deep understanding of ARMv8 architecture and ARM assembly level programming, ARM EABI etc.
• Has worked on projects that involved improving the SW throughput or memory footprint
• Exposure to internals (in many cases understanding of the code) of industry standard benchmarks - Dhrystone, LMBench, Spec, Geekbench, Antutu
• Hands on experience of driver development on any RTOS .

Minimum Qualifications:

• Usage of J-TAG or ICE debuggers Experience in real-time SW development for embedded products.
• Motivated self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrated ability to work with engineers/partners/customers across different geographies.
• Demonstrated experience working with senior management in a corporate environment.
• Demonstrated experience in business process streamlining and transformation that includes disciplined approach to digitized services enabling.
• Hands-on technical lead who is not hesitant to dig into the details where needed to get first-hand knowledge of the issues and play an active and personal role in steering team success