Sr Lead /Staff Engineer - Embedded Dsp Software

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly experienced Staff Engineer Sensors Software to design, develop, and optimize software for next-generation sensor platforms. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience in embedded software development, DSP programming, and operating system concepts, with a strong understanding of performance, reliability, and system-level integration.

This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to build robust sensor software solutions for mobile and edge devices, with a focus on low-power, real-time, and high-performance execution environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop software for sensor processing, data acquisition, and real-time system integration.
• Work on DSP-based software architecture, optimization, and algorithm implementation.
• Develop and maintain embedded software components for sensor subsystems.
• Analyze and improve performance, latency, power consumption, and memory usage.
• Apply strong OS concepts including scheduling, concurrency, synchronization, IPC, memory management, and thread design.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, algorithms, and systems teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Debug complex system issues using logs, trace tools, and low-level analysis.
• Drive software design reviews, coding best practices, and technical decision-making.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across the team.
• Ensure software quality through unit testing, integration testing, and release readiness.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development, preferably in embedded or systems software.
• Strong hands-on experience in embedded systems programming.
• Proven experience with DSP software development and optimization.
• Multithreading and synchronization
• Interrupt handling
• Scheduling and task management
• Memory management
• Device driver interaction
• Proficiency in C/C++.
• Good knowledge of real-time and low-power software design.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills at system and platform level.
• Experience in working with cross-functional engineering teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Or Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.