Senior Audio Software Engineer - Cambridge, UK

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Company:Qualcomm Technologies International Ltd

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software EngineeringQualcomm 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.

General Summary

At our Cambridge site we are focused on pioneering IoT and automotive technologies, with engineering areas of excellence including, Analogue and Digital Design, Voice and Music (Hardware, Software, OEM Support, Innovation). Cambridge is our largest office in the UK, with more than 600 team members including engineers, business strategists and support staff.

About The Role

The position of Software Engineer is in Qualcomm’s Audio group.

The Audio group is a world-wide group of engineers developing Audio framework technology for accessories based on Bluetooth like: earbuds, headsets, sound bars and smart speakers. The group is highly successful. Deliveries can be found in over 2 billion Bluetooth products. Audio wireless products continues to evolve, offering excellent opportunities for engineers to work on innovative product development.

The role of the Software Engineer focuses firstly on the development of the audio framework used by DSPs and secondly on integration of work done all over the world. This involves coding in C and occasionally assembler, within a resource constrained real-time environment.

The team maintains its own collection of tools most written in Python, used within the team and by customers. Engineers work on both Windows and Linux with simulators, emulators, and silicon. The projects tasks are usually split amongst small, mostly autonomous teams of specialists. Individual engineers mainly interact directly with their peers inside and outside the team using a wide collection of tools (video conference, email, instant messaging, wiki, revision control, bug tracker…).

This is a position for an engineer with some experience or a certain degree of knowledge in firmware/embedded work and who loves to work in low level world (boot up systems, HAL, etc.) to a embedded system level design (subsystem interaction, feature level design, etc.). If you’d like to work in this challenging environment, we would love to hear from you!

Perks And Benefits

Qualcomm offers a broad benefits package including a competitive annual salary, performance bonus, an employee share purchase program, generous pension scheme, private medical and 25 days annual leave.

You will also be eligible for subsidised gym membership, season ticket loan as well as subsidised lunches in our onsite canteen.

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to work in an organization working in the way described before.
• Good understanding of software design techniques
• Experience in development in system with tight CPU and memory requirements using C (not C++).
• Good python knowledge
• Experience with debugging techniques
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal English communication skills.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree (or equivalent qualification) in software engineering or a systems engineering course with a software component
• Knowledge of DSP and CPU architecture and design and HW/SW interaction.
• Understanding of signal processing software in particular audio processing products.
• Experience with message based operating systems.
• Knowledge of assembler
  
  

Education

Minimum Qualifications

Certifications

Work Experiences:

Skills

Assembly Code, Audio Systems, C (Programming Language), DSP Architectures

Skills

Preferred Qualifications

• References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.
  
  

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