Senior Engineer, Application Engineering (WLAN)

Company:
Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.

Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

General Summary:

We are looking for highly motivated and talented software engineers as part of the core WLAN application engineering group supporting current and next generation of WLAN products. As part of this WLAN application engineering group, you will be responsible for:

• Looking at the customer requirements, proposing feature design and working on implementation of the feature and helping the customers launch with the feature working end to end.
• Applying Software knowledge and experience to design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
• Analyzing user needs and software requirements to design and customize software for optimal operational efficiency.
• Design and implementation of software modules for products and systems.
• Participation in the design, coding for large features, unit testing, significant debugging fixes, and integration efforts to ensure projects are completed to specifications and schedules.
• Performing code reviews and regression tests as well as triages and fixes issues to ensure the quality of code.
• Collaborating with networking/firmware/system/hardware teams to accomplish project objectives.
• Writing technical documentation for Software projects.

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with debugging techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 3+ years Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 3+ years experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Python, shell script, etc.
• Linux device driver development experience
• Any experience in WiFi/Networking protocol development
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced team environment

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$123,900.00 - $185,900.00

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