Staff Engineer, CPU Software Test Engineer (Server)
Qualcomm · Bangalore · 4+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-03-18
Tech stack: C, C++, Java, Python
About the role
Qualcomm India Private Limited
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
Responsibilities: - 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.
- 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.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- 2+ 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
- Nice to have: 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
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- 2+ 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
- Nice to have: 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
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.