System HW Applications Engineer, Staff
Qualcomm · Bengaluru
- Experience8–13 yrs
- SalaryNot disclosed
- Work modeonsite
- Posted23 Sept 2026
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is hiring in Bengaluru in semiconductors electronics. This role looks for around 8+ years of experience.
Skills
- Embedded systems
- Silicon validation
- Board bring-up
- High-speed interfaces
- Power management
- Customer engagement
- Digital design
- SoC design
- HW/SW design
- ARM processors
- PCB design
- Signal Integrity
- Power Integrity
- C
- Oscilloscopes
- Logic Analyzers
- JTAG
The role
A system hardware applications engineer at a semiconductor and electronics company integrates embedded systems and silicon validation for customer products, troubleshoots SoC design issues, and supports board bring-up and high-speed interfaces. The role applies power management and customer engagement to guide cross-functional engineering teams through product commercialization.
Full job description
Job Summary
As a member of Qualcomm Customer engineering team, the individual will be responsible for successful integration of Qualcomm solution into customer end products in Mobile, Compute, 5G Broadband, Automotive, IoT and consumer electronics markets. Gathers, integrates, and interprets information across cross functional teams from a variety of sources in order to troubleshoot issues and find solutions. Applies deep and broad knowledge to anticipate and identify gaps/risks in processes, efforts, technical aspects of HW/System aspects etc., and closes the gaps with wide range of ecosystem partners within Qualcomm and enable customer product commercialization. Individual will be responsible and acts as a tech lead on projects and owns the outcome of the project for supporting Qualcomm's growing portfolio of platforms/applications. Job involves working closely with internal partners in definition of product as appropriate, collaborate with HW/SW/validation/test and product teams on customized use cases of customer applications, support customers on HW design signoffs, system/SoC debug, deliverables etc and effectively managing cross functional team of engineers. Individual will be responsible to create chipset documentation, assist customers in technical responses to customer queries and troubleshooting of customer designs from overall system and SoC point of view. Candidate should have minimum 8+ Years of relevant experience. Past expertise and experience in interacting with multiple teams in HW, SW, domain skills in Digital/High Speed/SoC, Power Management, Silicon validation, Customer engagement, ability to adapt dynamic changes to meet tight deadlines/commitments and deliver customer requirements, Strong written and oral communication skills is highly desirable. Travelling to customer sites across geographical locations in Asia/NA etc on need basis
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Embedded systems HW/SW design preferably ARM based, board bring up, Silicon bench tests/ Characterization, measurements AC/DC parameters, SOC interface parametric measurements, basic SW integrated functional tests, Silicon validation, HW PCB design, High speed peripheral expertise, Signal Integrity and Power Integrity, System level architecture Programming languages: C and scripting languages PERL/PYTHON preferred. Good trouble-shooting skills with analysis and debug ability at PCB, HW IP, SW and SoC level. Expertise in High Speed Digital interfaces such as Memory Bus I/F (UFS, eMMC, LPDDRx), USB, MIPI CSI/DSI, PCIe, SERDES etc and Power management areas like LDO, SMPS, Clock, Crystal etc. Hands on experience in working with Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers. Basic knowledge of ARM processors, Multi core architecture, experience in working with JTAG emulators. Knowledge of Multi-core system/inter-chip system design is a plus. Experience in technical leadership and people management, guiding cross-functional engineering teams. Proven track record in leading projects to successful completion while supporting team growth and development.
Keywords
Embedded systems, Silicon Characterization, LPDDR4x, LPDDR5, LPDDR, NAND, UFS, eMMC, SERDES, PCIe, MIPI, USB, UART, SPI, I2C, Logic Analyzer, PADS, Allegro, ARM processor, JTAG, LDO, SMPS, Clock, Crystal, Board bring up
Educational Requirements
Required: Bachelor's, Electronics and/or Electrical Engineering Preferred: Master's, Electronics and/or Electrical Engineering