Qualcomm

RF Application Engineer

Posted on: 27 Jan 2021

San Diego, CA

Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Communication Technologies Ltd.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

Job Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.

Job Function:

QCTs ASICs provide integrated solutions for mobile phone product and MBB/CPE (Mobile Broadband/Customer Premise Equipment) worldwide. Customer engineering supports customers with all aspects of embedded software and systems development. This includes assisting OEMs with designs, providing training, debugging, assistance in optimizing and integrating software. It exposes the candidate to the key players in the wireless industry worldwide and places him or her right in the heart of the dynamism of 5G wireless deployment.

This position is responsible for 5G RF software sub6/mmWave bring up and certification support for our family of Snapdragon Modem/RF chipsets. The role requires interfacing with handset developers, base-station partners and wireless carriers worldwide. Training, assisting customers with software design, integration, development, system debugging, handling customer Q&A, and interfacing closely with internal developers are some of the key activities in this position. Some travel for on-site customer support may be required.

Skills/Experience

This is a very challenging position that requires the candidate to learn and internalize QTI software and operation concepts very quickly. The candidate will support a wide range of software discussions, ranging from low level embedded software to high-level carrier features.

Key skills include

- Strong software debugging skills on embedded real time operating systems

- Strong experience in C/C++ programming, systems knowledge or background applicable to RF

- Software device RF driver development experience, RF testing experience

- Demonstrated expertise with RF Test equipment (5G Test call boxes, spectrum analyzer, Oscilloscope, etc.)

The candidate is expected to have strong communication and interpersonal skills, high motivation, the ability to learn quickly, and must be a self-starter. This candidate will be responsible for driving OEM designs and the integration of system level components into customer handset designs.

Responsibilities Prior experience with portable hand-held devices and technical support for customers desirable.

Embedded or wireless system software development and integration on telecommunications devices.

Familiarity with ARM architecture, ARM assembly, emulators/JTAG-debuggers, test-mobiles test equipment such as Oscilloscope/Logic Analyzers, test-mobiles & logging tools an advantage.

Ability to work as part of a dedicated project team and independently essential.

Education Requirements

Required: Bachelor's, Computer Science and/or Communication, Electrical Engineering

Preferred: Master's, Computer Science and/or Communication, Electrical Engineering

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Qualcomm

San Diego, CA

QUALCOMM Incorporated designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital communication products worldwide. It operates through three segments: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT); Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL); and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI). The QCT segment develops and supplies integrated circuits and system software based on code division multiple access (CDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access, and other technologies for use in wireless voice and data communications, networking, application processing, multimedia, and global positioning system products.

The QTL segment grants licenses or provides rights to use portions of its intellectual property portfolio, which include various patent rights useful in the manufacture and sale of wireless products comprising products implementing CDMA2000, wideband CDMA, CDMA time division duplex, long term evolution, and/or fifth generation standards and their derivatives. The QSI segment invests in early-stage companies in various industries, including automotive, Internet of things, mobile, data center, and healthcare for supporting the design and introduction of new products and services for voice and data communications, and new industry segments.

The company also provides products and services for mobile health; products designed for the implementation of small cells; development, and other services and related products to the United States government agencies and their contractors; and software products, and content and push-to-talk enablement services to wireless operators. In addition, it licenses chipset technology, and products and services for use in data centers. QUALCOMM Incorporated was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.