Staff Hardware Applications Engineer

Employer

Job Description

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Applications Engineering

General Summary

Join the exciting Hardware Customer Engineering team supporting Snapdragon™ based products for the World’s largest Fabless Semiconductor company. Use your versatile technical and communication skills to enable significant product launches by working closely with customers and internal design teams. Snapdragon™ product support includes developing & delivering world-class documentation, customer training, design reviews & debugging. You will gain exposure to a broad range of state-of-the-art technical and business topics including but not limited to: Product design (Smart Phones, Gaming Handsets, AR/VR, Compute, Drones, Robotics, Connected Cameras, Automobile Infotainment Consoles, etc.), System design (Thermal Power, PDN, Signal Integrity, & High Speed SerDes), Embedded Processors (CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs) Memory & Peripherals (DDR, UFS, USB, PCIe, CSI, DSI, DP, Ethernet, etc.) and related Business topics (marketing support, training & legal topics).

The XR Hardware applications team provides comprehensive support to all Augmented, Virtual, and/or Mixed Reality (SoC) products (AR/VR/MR). This team interfaces with cross-functional internal teams and global applications engineering teams for end-to-end customer support ranging from customer training, development support, commercialization support, to mass production. We are looking for passionate engineers with a complex SoC hardware background and understanding of high end, multimedia focused embedded systems. The Applications team also bridges customer requirements with internal plan of record, identifies gaps in requirements, and proposes solutions to mitigate the gaps.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.

Responsibilities
  • Provide hardware design support to customers to enable efficient high quality product launches
  • Research and answer a wide range of in-depth technical questions on Qualcomm SoC and its associated peripherals and IOs (e.g., LP5, UFS, USB, PCIe, CSI, DSI, DP, Ethernet)
  • Resolve technical problems via hands-on trouble shooting.
  • Perform block diagram, schematic, parts placement, and PCB routing reviews on customer platforms, including DDR, Power Delivery Network, and Signal Integrity simulations.
  • Contribute to customer facing reference designs.
  • Create and maintain world-class hardware documentation and design collaterals.

Skills/experience
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
  • Experience in the design and production of high end consumer electronic devices using highly integrated SoC and power management ICs, with multimedia, gaming, and AR/VR product experience a bonus
  • Familiarity with complex multi-layered PCB design, schematic, and layout, including power and signal integrity.
  • Self-motivated, independent, and works well with large interdisciplinary hardware teams.
  • Flexible, self-starting and tenacious with initiative to resolve complex customer problems.
  • Experience in integration, debug, and problem reproduction on internal and customer platforms.
  • Experience in Python programming is a plus

Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm’s toll-free number found here for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

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