Senior Lead Engineer – Embedded Core Platform Firmware

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Job Summary

Join Qualcomm's Embedded Core Platform team and lead the development of foundational firmware enabling SoCs from ROM boot through OS handoff. You will drive architecture, development, integration, and bring-up of secure boot, platform initialization, memory subsystems, storage, and peripheral drivers across next-generation Qualcomm platforms running on Zephyr RTOS / FreeRTOS.

The engineer will work on low-level firmware across ARM Cortex-M / RISC-V based SoCs and contribute to production-quality embedded software for power-sensitive and performance-constrained devices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of low-level platform firmware and boot software.
• Drive SoC bring-up on emulation, FPGA, simulation, and silicon platforms.
• Develop and integrate firmware for DDR, UFS, eMMC, NAND, SPI-NOR, NVMe, USB, PCIe, UART, SPI, and I2C.
• Own secure boot, authentication, platform configuration, and execution environment enablement.
• Collaborate with hardware, architecture, validation, security, and system teams to resolve complex platform issues.
• Lead technical reviews, mentor engineers, and ensure firmware quality, security, and scalability.
• Drive issue triage, root-cause analysis, and milestone execution.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in embedded firmware or platform software development.
• Expert-level C programming and strong debugging skills.
• Extensive experience in bootloaders, BSPs, device drivers, and embedded systems.
• Strong understanding of ARM architecture and low-level system software.
• Proven experience in silicon bring-up, platform initialization, and system debugging.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Skills

• Secure Boot, TrustZone, cryptography, and authentication frameworks.
• ARM assembly programming.
• DDR/LPDDR memory initialization and training.
• UEFI/EDK2, U-Boot, TF-A, Coreboot, Zephyr, or FreeRTOS.
• Experience with Trace32, Lauterbach, JTAG, and pre-silicon development environments.
• Python scripting and automation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Preferred Skills

• Secure Boot, TrustZone, cryptography, and authentication frameworks.
• ARM assembly programming.
• DDR/LPDDR memory initialization and training.
• UEFI/EDK2, U-Boot, TF-A, Coreboot, Zephyr, or FreeRTOS.
• Experience with Trace32, Lauterbach, JTAG, and pre-silicon development environments.
• Python scripting and automation.

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