Staff, Engineer

General Summary:

Qualcomm Cloud Business Unit is looking for an experienced software engineer in the areas of Linux User-space for Machine Learning Use cases. The development target is Qualcomm high-performance inference accelerator AI100 and related products.

The candidate should be familiar with developing SW using modern C++(11,14,17), Object Oriented Design, Design Patterns Principles, Linux user-mode drivers, inter-process communication such as gRPC, protocol buffers, system profiling, code optimization and tool development.

Responsibilities include Linux software architecture and design, development, software integration, functional and performance testing.

Ideal candidates for this position will demonstrate the following:

• 8+ years experience with Linux user-space development, including IOCTL interfaces, API development and multi-threaded processing.
• 8+ years experience with development in Modern C++(11,14,17) including debug and testing.
• Proficiency across multiple languages (C, C++, Python) and experience in unit testing tooling for C and C++ development, including googletest.
• Experience with real-time embedded operating systems.
• Experience in requirement capture and traceability.
• Experience in UML design capture & analysis.
• Experience with development of peripheral drivers.
• Knowledge of RTOS, SoC architecture (core, cache, memory, bus architecture, IOs, etc.) and common hardware blocks
• Experience with Source Code and Configuration management tools, git knowledge is required
• Willingness to work in a structured software development environment with ability to work on low-level implementation (code & test)
• Good English communication (written and verbal) and positive interpersonal skills
• Familiar with inter-process communication architecture such as gRPC.
• Software development and debug tools including compilers, profilers, source control systems, emulators, JTAG and serial debuggers, and logic analyzers

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. ORMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. ORPhD 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.