Sr. SW Application Engineer -UEFI (Neihu)

Company:

Qualcomm Communication Technologies Ltd.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

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. As a Qualcomm Software Application Engineer, you will provide technical expertise of software systems through technical presentations in support of business development, product demonstrations, design and development of customer specific requirements, commercialization, and maintenance of Qualcomm products. Qualcomm Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams and customers to address questions, issues, debugging, or troubleshooting regarding software systems and applications.

Responsibilities:

• SOC Boot Flow Development

• Familiar with SoC boot flow, including storage interfaces such as UFS and SPI NOR.

• Debug boot up issues for bootloader and UEFI initialization stages.

• Board Bring-Up

• Support OEM/ODM projects for hardware platform bring-up and firmware integration.

• Validate and tune hardware platforms to ensure successful OS boot.

• Joint Debug & Issue Resolution

• Collaborate with OEM/ODM teams to debug and resolve device boot-up issues.

• Analyze and troubleshoot problems related to boot flow, UEFI, and peripheral initialization.

• UEFI Architecture & Development

Work with UEFI EDK2 architecture for module development and maintenance. Collaborate with with OEM/ODM for UEFI drivers, Boot Services, and Runtime Services.

Performance & Reliability

Optimize boot time and system stability. Ensure firmware meets reliability requirements and collaboration with Pre-test Lab.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields.

• 5+ years of experience in embedded systems or firmware development, with hands-on UEFI project experience.

• Proficient in C programming and UEFI EDK2 framework.

• Strong understanding of SoC architecture, boot flow, and storage interfaces (UFS, SPI NOR).

• Experience in board bring-up and validate basic features on SoC.

• Excellent problem-solving and cross-team communication skills.

• Good English reading and writing skills for technical discussion.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with ARM64 architecture.

• Experience with boot flow and UEFI validation.

• Previous collaboration experience with OEM/ODM projects.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

• 1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with debugging techniques.

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