Senior Staff Engineer

Title: Staff Engineer, Senior (System Tools,C++)
Experience Range: 10 - 19 years
Mandatory Skills: C++, Driver development, ARM
Good‑to‑Have Skills: SOC , complainers, debuggers

About the Role
Qualcomm is looking for a highly experienced Senior Staff Engineer to lead the architecture and development of next-generation platform firmware across advanced SoCs. This is a technical leadership role where you will drive core platform software from ROM Boot to OS Handoff, enabling cutting-edge products across ARM Cortex-M and RISC-V based embedded systems.
You will work closely with Architecture, Hardware, Security, Validation, Silicon Bring-Up, and Product teams to build scalable, secure, and high-performance firmware platforms powering future Qualcomm innovations.

Key Responsibilities
Firmware Architecture & Technical Leadership
Own the architecture and technical direction of platform firmware across multiple SoC programs.
Define scalable solutions for:
ROM Boot & Bootloaders
Secure Boot & Authentication
BSP Development
Platform Initialization
Memory Initialization
OS Handoff
Device Driver Frameworks
Lead architecture reviews, design discussions, and code reviews.
Platform Software Development
Design and develop low-level platform software in Embedded C/C++.
Drive firmware development on:
ARM Cortex-M processors
RISC-V processors
Bare-metal systems
RTOS-based platforms
Enable and optimize:
Zephyr RTOS
FreeRTOS
Bare-metal execution environments

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