The posting
## Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary:
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. We are seeking a results-driven Principal Engineer to lead our Home and Life, Video Collaboration Segments in the Consumer Processor Engineering division. In this pivotal leadership role, you will drive the strategic vision, development, and execution for the Retail, Home & Life and Video Collaboration segments.
You will serve as a key bridge between technical execution teams and global customers, collaborating closely with Product Management to translate market needs into comprehensive, end-to-end technology solutions. This is an opportunity to shape the future of consumer processor applications in a high-growth IoT landscape. You operate with minimal direction, solve ambiguous and cross domain problems, and influence technical decisions across multiple product generations.
This role is not focused on people management, but on technical leadership at scale owning end-to-end architecture, setting engineering standards, and unblocking complex system level challenges across hardware, software, and product teams.
Scope & Impact
At the Principal level, you are expected to:
- Strategic Roadmap & Execution: Define and execute a robust strategic roadmap for the Home and Life, Video Collaboration segment, ensuring alignment with company-wide IoT objectives and product group requirements. Drive cross team technical alignment and influence roadmap decisions.
- Customer & Product Synergy: Partner directly with customers and product management to identify segment-specific needs; translate these into technical requirements and map them to appropriate SoC (System-on-Chip) and software platforms.
* Technical Oversight: Deep-dive into technical requirements across various technology areas, ensuring that software features are optimized for specific sub-segments and hardware configurations. Own system level architecture for major subsystems Camera, Display, Audio, Video, Security, Boot, Storage and Peripherals.
* Ownership: Drives the resolution of all engineering issues within the segment, whether within a specific subsystem, or across subsystems, functions, and chipset components. Drives complete verification for component and chipset KPIs (performance, power, and quality); directs teams conducting hardware, software, or system-level testing, verification, and validation based on project plans and specifications.
* Cross-Functional Leadership: Develop comprehensive execution plans in collaboration with program management and engineering teams, overseeing the full development lifecycle to ensure timely, high-quality delivery of customer devices in the market.
* Talent & Culture Excellence: Foster a culture of engineering excellence, challenging the status quo, continuous improvement, innovation, and calculated risk-taking.
Level of Responsibility:
* Be the go-to expert for one or more deep technical areas while maintaining strong system breadth.
* Plan and execute state-of-the-art chipsets through all phases from concept to commercialization across all engineering teams. Outlines schedules, costs, requirements, and KPIs (e.g., power, performance, reliability) from concept to commercialization.
* Writes detailed technical documentation and feature descriptions for projects; reviews technical documentation.
* Drives critical decision-making and delivers high impact on program, product, or project success.
* Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey highly complex and/or detailed information. May require strong negotiation and influence with large groups or high-level constituents.
* Works within the prescribed budgetary objectives of the department
* Has a great degree of influence over key organizational 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.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. • 4+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's Degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 4+ years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.
- 3+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership.
- 2+ years of experience balancing tradeoffs between product KPIs and costs.
- 2+ years of experience managing project costs.
- Demonstrated ownership of large, complex systems from architecture through production deployment.
* Expert proficiency in C/C++, with a strong command of concurrency, memory management, and real‑time constraints.
* Proven experience designing Linux, Android, RTOS based embedded products.
* 8+ years of experience in one or more areas of semiconductor product development.
* 5+ years in a technical leadership role.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Leverages expert Software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate highly 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 highly sophisticated software for optimal operational efficiency.
• Designs and implements software sub-systems for complex, large-scale products and systems; resolves design, coding, and other technical issues by presenting end-to-end solutions.
• Leads design, coding, and testing efforts to ensure that projects are completed to specifications and schedules.
• Serves as a technical expert in performing highly complex code reviews, regression tests, and triages and fixes issues to ensure the quality of code.
• Collaborates with high-level representatives from other functions (e.g., testing group, product group, customers) to integrate plan for software design of a large initiative.
• Writes detailed technical documentation for highly complex Software projects; reviews technical documentation for experienced engineers.
Level of Responsibility:
• Provides supervision to direct reports.
• Decision-making is critical in nature and highly impacts program, product, or project success.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey highly complex and/or detailed information. May require strong negotiation and influence with large groups or high-level constituents.
• Has a great degree of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is making or directly making key decisions that will have substantial impact over the organization).
• 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.
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$197,000.00 - $295,400.00
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.
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