Staff CPU Power Management Firmware Developer

Company:Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

As a CPU Power Management FW Developer, you are responsible for working with a team on the enablement of the power management solution for Qualcomm's custom CPUs. You will collaborate internally to help define and implement embedded firmware to manage operation of the CPU subsystem within the allocated power and thermal budgets. You will also be responsible for helping characterize and tune this solution for all Qualcomm SoCs utilizing Qualcomm custom CPUs. 

In CPU Power Management FW developer role, with focus on limits management, you will be working closely both with the hardware power management and firmware development teams. You will have an opportunity to engage with third parties on enablement of new platforms, as well as providing input to our SoC and platform architects on future designs.

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.

Role and Responsibilities

• Drive the firmware design, implementation and verification, in pre-silicon and post-silicon environments.

• Assist in the definition Limits management solutions for future generation of Qualcomm CPUs.

• Actively engage with open source communities to contribute support for processor architectures, device drivers, and firmware features

• Assist in identifying skills requirements and in hiring engineers, collaborating with other teams on platform bring-up/debug/diags, firmware lifecycle, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS in Electrical, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science (or equivalent professional experience) with 8 to 12 years experience in embedded firmware development

• Self-starter who takes initiative and brings technical leadership

• Proficient writing and debugging C and assembly

• Driver development experience in RTOS or OS Kernel environments 

• Demonstrated development experience with embedded OSes such as Zephyr, eCos, uC/OS or FreeRTOS

• Experience developing for pre-silicon environments including simulators and FPGA emulation

• Experience developing, characterizing and tuning solutions for power limiting, thermal limiting for an SoC subsystem will be a considerable plus.

• Familiarity with ARM v8 architecture. Development experience for a ARMV8 platform is a plus.

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