Company
Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary
- Senior Engineer and Sr Lead Engineer (Openings)
- Development Role (NOT TESTING / Validation Role)
- 3-8 years of experience in wireless communication systems, with a focus on Wi-Fi technologies.
- Strong understanding of IEEE 802.11 standards (a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be).
- Proficiency in C/C++ and embedded systems development.
- Experience in embedded software/firmware development, with significant focus on WiFi or other wireless technologies.
- Strong proficiency in C for embedded systems; good understanding of realtime constraints, memory/performance optimization.
- Solid knowledge of 802.11 protocols and WiFi stack (MAC state machines, management/control frames, scanning, association, roaming, security, QoS).
- Experience with RTOS or baremetal firmware on SoCs / MCUs.
- Experience debugging lowlevel firmware issues with tools such as JTAG, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, and internal debug logs.
- Strong understanding of:
- Interrupt handling, DMA, timers, power management.
- Hardwaresoftware interfaces, register programming, and driver/firmware interaction.
- Proven ability to own features independently and drive complex issues to closure.
- Preferred / NicetoHave
- Experience with advanced WiFi features:
- 802.11ax/11be (OFDMA, MUMIMO, TWT, MLO, spatial reuse).
- Dualband simultaneous (DBS), multiband operations (MBO), advanced roaming.
- Experience with coexistence (WiFi/BT/LTE/UWB) algorithms.
- Familiarity with Linux WiFi host drivers (e.g., qcacld/ath11k/etc.) and hostfirmware interfaces (WMI/HTT or similar).
- Experience in power optimization for batteryoperated/IoT devices.
- Exposure to customerfacing bringup, field issue debug, or interoperability testing.
- Contributions to WiFi standards, opensource drivers, or internal architecture frameworks.
- Strong communication skills and prior experience as a technical lead / mentor.
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.
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