Staff Engineer, CPU Software Test Engineer (Server)

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs. Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.

Job Overview

• Create software/firmware test plans, addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage, with respect to feature requirements
• Design, develop, execute and maintain automated software/firmware test suites for the purpose of verifying quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration and system levels
• Manually test, where appropriate, the customer experience of installation and deployment of Qualcomm hardware and software in a mobile, compute and automotive environment.
• Assist in the creation of a Quality Engineering/Release engineering process with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Assist in achieving production-level software readiness, implement customer use-cases, workload analysis models, workload creation, and collaborating with other teams on bring-up/debug/diags
• Focus on ensuring that existing Operating Systems and customer usage environments run well, while identifying strong opportunity for enhancements, from a power and performance perspective.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. ORMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. ORPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. 3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

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:

• 8+ years of experience in Software/Firmware Validation
• Demonstrated software test engineering in SW/FW engineering with focus on Data Center Servers (minimum 5 years).
• Strong understanding and experience in software/firmware test automation techniques
• Extensive experience working with operating systems like Ubuntu Server, RHEL, SUSE, similar or Windows server
• Work with multiple SW/HW Engineering teams to ensure that all requirements and features of reference platform requirements have been validated at a component, integration, functional and system level
• Strong programming skills with experience in C and/or Python programming languages
• Experience developing automated software/firmware test cases for server platforms, supporting bring-up and production SW releases

Nice to have:

• Prior Experience with SW/FW integration at BIOS/UEFI, BMC firmware, Operating System for x86/ARM64/RISC-V 64bit for server platforms.
• Strong understanding of Server firmware Standards, opensource Implementation and specifications for ARM64-based servers

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Leverages advanced Software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.

Analyzes user needs, software requirements, and time and cost constraints to design and customize software for optimal operational efficiency.

Designs and implements software modules for large-scale products and systems.

Participates in and leads design, coding, unit testing, debugging, and integration efforts to ensure projects are completed to specifications and schedules.

Performs complex code reviews and regression tests as well as triages and fixes issues to ensure the quality of code.

Collaborates with individuals outside the software function (e.g., Hardware, Systems, and Test engineers) to ensure solutions work with other components of a specific project.

Writes detailed technical documentation for complex Software projects.

Level of Responsibility:

Works independently with minimal supervision.

Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.

Decision-making is significant in nature and affects work beyond immediate work group.

Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information. May require basic negotiation, influence, tact, etc.

Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).

Tasks often require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; extensive planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.