Lead Engineer
- Location Hyderabad, Telangāna, India
- Experience 5+ yrs
- Job type Full-time
- Posted 6 Oct 2026
- Qualification PhD / Master's (Engineering)
You will be taken to Qualcomm’s own careers page to apply. Job ID 3095332.
Job description
Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering General Summary: We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Senior Engineer to join our embedded software team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in low-level driver development, embedded system architecture, and hardware-software interaction. The role involves debugging, and optimizing software components for next-generation embedded platforms. The candidate should possess a solid understanding of processor architecture, memory management, cache behavior, clocking systems, power management, and peripheral interfaces. Experience working closely with hardware teams during SoC bring-up, platform validation, and issue debugging is highly desirable. Key Responsibilities
- Work on device bring-up, platform initialization, and hardware enablement activities.
- Debug complex system-level issues involving hardware and software interactions.
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, validation, and system teams to ensure feature delivery and product stability.
- Analyze system crashes, performance bottlenecks, and power-related issues.
- Optimize software for performance, power efficiency, and memory utilization.
- Support integration and validation of new peripherals and subsystems.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical discussions.
- Develop diagnostic tools, scripts, and automation to improve engineering productivity.