Staff Engineer, CPU Software Test Engineer (Server)

About the position

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience
• OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience
• OR PhD 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
• Opportunity for annual RSU grants
• Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play