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Staff / Senior Staff Engineer, Server CPU Software Test Engineer

qualcomm
Santa Clara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 26 Mar 2026
💰 $271,000/yr($180,600/yr$271,000/yr)

About the role


Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

***Hiring for Staff/Sr. Staff/Principal levels in various Qualcomm office locations in the US

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.
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.

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

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will pro

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