Senior Lead Engineer – NSP/NPU System Software

About the role

Qualcomm’s Central Software Engineering team seeks a Senior Lead Engineer for the Neural Signal Processor (NSP) System software group in Bangalore, India. The role involves architecting and developing system software frameworks and high-performance drivers for Qualcomm SoCs to support multimedia and AI inferencing workloads. This is an on-site position requiring collaboration with global hardware and platform teams.

What you’ll do

• Architect, design, and develop software frameworks across SoC processors
• Develop high-performance system drivers for compute resources
• Identify performance optimization areas for software and hardware architectures
• Integrate, test, and commercially support embedded software solutions
• Deploy platform software for complex Multimedia and Deep Learning use cases
• Partner with hardware architecture and platform software teams
• Drive architecture and development of system software for heterogeneous computing
• Work offsite and onsite with OEMs and ISVs as required

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, or related field
• 3+ years of Software Engineering work experience
• 2+ years experience with C, C++, Java, or Python

Nice to have

• 4+ years writing scalable C/C++ multi-threaded applications
• Experience with Android/Embedded Linux/QNX operating systems
• Deep understanding of CPU/DSP/NPU architectures
• Proficiency in threading, mutex, synchronization, and parallel computing
• Experience with build systems like CMake, Make, ninja, Yocto
• Familiarity with source control tools such as Git or Perforce
• Hands-on experience with system analysis tools for optimization
• Master's degree preferred with minimum 6 years relevant experience

Skills

Education

Required: Bachelor's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science, software engineering or closely related discipline with 6-8yrs of relevant work experience