Senior Engineer, Systems Software & Platform Engineering

Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering General Summary:

Qualcomm is seeking a Senior Engineer to develop, integrate, debug, and optimize platform software for next-generation SoC platforms. This role requires strong system-level expertise across Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, DSP, connectivity, power management, and AI-enabled systems. The successful candidate will contribute to platform bring-up, subsystem integration, performance optimization, customer issue resolution, and product commercialization while working closely with cross-functional engineering teams.

Develop and integrate platform software across Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, firmware, middleware, and subsystem interfaces. Support platform bring-up, feature enablement, and software readiness for new silicon programs. Investigate and resolve complex issues spanning hardware, firmware, kernel, middleware, and application layers. Analyze and optimize system behavior across power, performance, memory, thermal, reliability, and user experience dimensions. Diagnose issues involving CPU, DSP, GPU, memory, storage, clocks, regulators, thermal management, and connectivity subsystems. Collaborate with silicon, firmware, validation, and software teams to deliver high-quality platform solutions. Drive customer issue investigations from problem identification through root-cause analysis and resolution. Contribute to automation, observability, and engineering productivity initiatives. Technical Leadership Drive technical execution within assigned platform and subsystem domains. Apply structured debugging techniques including instrumentation, tracing, failure reproduction, cross-system correlation, and root-cause isolation. Utilize profiling and observability tools to identify bottlenecks and validate optimizations. Participate in architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical problem solving. Contribute to technical decisions involving performance, power, reliability, cost, and schedule trade-offs. Mentor junior engineers and promote software quality and debugging best practices. Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development efficiency and engineering productivity. Program Execution Own execution of assigned features and technical deliverables. Support milestone planning, risk identification, and issue tracking. Drive closure of critical software defects impacting product readiness. Support product validation, characterization, and performance analysis activities. Collaborate across engineering disciplines to meet schedule and quality goals. Customer & Stakeholder Engagement Participate in customer debugging sessions and technical reviews. Support analysis and resolution of customer-reported issues and escalations. Communicate technical status, risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders. Work closely with architects, program managers, and engineering teams to ensure successful execution.

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline. Experience in embedded systems, BSP, RTOS, Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, firmware, kernel, or platform software development. Strong programming skills in C/C++. Experience with system-level debugging, performance analysis, and software integration. Understanding of modern SoC architectures and subsystem interactions.

Experience with Linux, Android, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, DSP, GPU, modem, connectivity, PMIC, power management, and AI accelerator subsystems. Experience with platform bring-up, subsystem integration, performance tuning, crash analysis, and reliability engineering. Familiarity with system profiling, tracing, observability, and debug tools. Understanding of system-level trade-offs across power, performance, memory, thermal, and user experience metrics. Experience using