Sr. Staff CPU Software Test Engineer
Qualcomm · Santa Clara, CA
About this role
Qualcomm is hiring a senior-level QA Engineer in the software engineering function based in Santa Clara, CA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Java, C, CI/CD. Compensation is listed at $180,600–$271,000 per year.
- Role
- QA Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
- Posted
- Mar 11, 2026
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Job description
from Qualcomm careers##
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
## Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software 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 Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs. Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.
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Job Overview
* Create software/firmware test plans, addressing requirements traceability matrix and test coverage, with respect to feature requirements
* Design, develop, execute and maintain automated software/firmware test suites for the purpose of verifying quality and compliance of Qualcomm products at functional, integration and system levels
* Manually test, where appropriate, the customer experience of installation and deployment of Qualcomm hardware and software in a mobile, compute and automotive environment.
* Assist in the creation of a Quality Engineering/Release engineering process with emphasis on continuous integration and continuous deployment
* Assist in achieving production-level software readiness, implement customer use-cases, workload analysis models, workload creation, and collaborating with other teams on bring-up/debug/diags