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Embedded Software Stability Engineer role with following responsibilities:
- Investigate and debug software stability issues found in various Qualcomm chipsets covering multi-processor, multi-RTOS systems.
- Typical issues include coding and algorithmic bugs, resource exhaustion, stack and heap corruptions, SW and HW watchdogs, HW misconfiguration.
- Maintain expert-level knowledge of SW debugging methods and apply them judiciously to quickly resolve stability issues.
- Methods include code inspection and instrumentation, SW log analysis, SW tracing, JTAG, ETM, Oscilloscopes.
- Understand wireless communications technologies used in Qualcomm chipsets such as C2K, GSM, UMTS, LTE, TDS-CDMA, NR5G, ,WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC.
- Work with development, test and customer engineering teams to resolve stability issues using processor simulators as well as live hardware.
- Represent stability team in various cross-team efforts such as chip bring-up, debugging in customer site and feature design discussions.
- Develop tools, scripts and training material to help improve stability process. Discuss technical analysis of stability issues and provide status through reports, scrum meetings and management reviews.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
- 1+ years experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2-5 years of software experience within the wireless, telecommunications or semiconductor industry
- Experience programming with C and C++
- Experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Perl, Python, CAPL, shell, bash)
- Experience with SW and HW tools used in debugging Additional skills in the following areas are a plus:
- Microprocessor architecture experience
- Trace32 scripting is a plus
- ARM, Cortex and Hexagon architecture is a plus
- Good understanding of embedded systems concepts including RTOS, integrated memory, caches, bus architectures (e.g. AHB, NoC, SDIO)