Sr. Staff Engineer, CPU Software Test Engineer (Server)

Company : Qualcomm
Location : San Diego, CA, 92189
Posted Date : 15 September 2025
Job Type : Full Time
Category : Industrial Engineering
Occupation : Test Engineer
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Company
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary
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.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
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.
- 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
- Leverages advanced Software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate critical embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
- Analyzes user needs, software requirements, and time and cost constraints to design and customize sophisticated software for optimal operational efficiency.
- Designs and implements software sub-systems for complex, large-scale products and systems.
- Leads design, coding, and testing efforts to ensure that projects are completed to specifications and schedules.
- Performs highly complex code reviews and regression tests as well as triages and fixes issues to ensure the quality of code.
- Collaborates with individuals outside the software function (e.g., Hardware, Systems, and Test engineers) to increase leverage and design solutions that work with other components of a specific project.
- Writes detailed technical documentation for highly complex Software projects; reviews technical documentation for junior engineers.
- Works independently with minimal supervision.
- Provides supervision/guidance to other team members.
- Decision-making is critical in nature and highly impacts program, product, or project success.
- Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey complex information. May require negotiation, influence, tact, etc.
- Has a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to make key decisions).
- Tasks often require multiple steps which can be performed in various orders; extensive planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.
EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.
Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
Pay Range And Other Compensation & Benefits
$180,600.00 - $271,000.00
The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
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