Staff Engineer - LPI Display

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what is possible to enable next-generation experiences and drive digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all.

As a Qualcomm Staff Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, debug, and validate embedded software, firmware, drivers, and specialized utility programs for cutting-edge Qualcomm platforms. The role requires strong hands-on experience in embedded systems, real-time software development, processor architectures, board bring-up, and system-level debugging.

Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, validation, test, and product teams to develop high-quality software solutions that meet performance, power, memory, and real-time requirements.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 9+ years of experience in embedded software / firmware development.
• Strong experience with RTOS-based environments is required, preference on Zephyr.
• Expertise in display technology and conversant with display concepts like frame composition and transfer, framebuffer, color formats, font rendering, GPU understanding, is required. Working experience on Vector Graphics, and UI frameworks such as PELE, LVGL.
• Experience in technical leadership & mentoring.
• Understanding of CPU, DSP, GPU, and NPU heterogeneous compute architectures.
• Strong programming experience in C and C++.
• Scripting and automation experience using Python is highly desired.
• Experience working on embedded platforms based on ARM and/or RISC-V architectures.
• Exposure to GenAI-assisted engineering workflows for software development, debugging, code review, documentation, automation, and productivity improvement is desirable.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Description:

The role of a Staff Software Engineer will be to contribute to Qualcomm’s embedded software and firmware development for advanced SoC platforms. We are looking for a highly motivated professional who is adaptable, technically strong, a quick learner, and capable of driving design, development, debugging, and validation of real-time embedded software.

The candidate will work on low-level firmware, RTOS-based software components, platform bring-up, peripheral interfaces, hardware/software interaction, and system-level debugging. The role involves working in a fast-paced development environment and contributing to high-quality software solutions for Qualcomm products.

The candidate is expected to demonstrate strong technical ownership, analytical capability, and the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams across hardware, systems, architecture, validation, and customer engineering.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of ARM & RISC-V architecture, SoC interconnects  
• Extensive embedded software development experience with strong knowledge of C/C++.
• Knowledge of RTOS-based environments is required, including:
  • Task scheduling
  • Interrupt handling
  • Timers
  • Synchronization primitives
  • Memory management
  • Inter-task communication
• Exposure to working with Zephyr RTOS is highly desired.
• Hands-on experience in embedded firmware development, board bring-up, driver development, and debugging on SoC / microcontroller-based platforms.
• Strong understanding of embedded software concepts such as:
  • Boot flow
  • Interrupts and exceptions
  • Memory maps
  • Cache / MPU / MMU basics
  • Peripheral register programming
  • Low-power and performance-sensitive software design
• Experience with debugging tools and lab equipment such as:
  • Logic analyzer
  • Oscilloscope
  • JTAG interfaces
  • Lauterbach / Trace32
  • J-Link
• Experience with scripting and automation using Python for log analysis, test automation, debugging utilities, and workflow optimization.
• Solid understanding of common embedded interfaces and protocols - I2C/SPI/UART
• Experience working on FPGA-based emulation platforms, pre-silicon environments, or post-silicon bring-up is a plus.
• Ability to debug complex hardware/software interaction issues across firmware, drivers, RTOS, and platform layers.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills that can be applied to resolve complex system-level issues.
• Experience optimizing AI workloads for embedded and power-constrained platforms.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with embedded AI inference and NPU acceleration.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on embedded software design, implementation, and debugging.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

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