Engineer, Staff

Company

Qualcomm France S.A.R.L.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Applications Engineering

General Summary

This position is for an experienced Embedded system/RF WLAN hardware engineer with strong technology background, problem solving and communication skills.

Major technical area is focused on hardware system from both a laboratory environment and board level, providing customer support through the performance of calibration services as well as overseeing any necessary diagnoses, troubleshooting, repair of general and RF equipment and setup.

The daily work could include customer training, issue debugging, feature development and project follow‑up.

The individual will also support customers to integrate Qualcomm WLAN solutions into their product and support them from design phase to mass production.

The individual will interact with marketing teams, product managers, sales team, and development teams to help resolve customer issues and report project progress.

Strong communication skills, background on processes and planning managements knowledge would be a benefit for the job.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Understanding of fundamentals of wireless communication physical and MAC layer concepts.
• 10+ years’ experience with hardware design, RF calibration and performance tuning, generic hardware and RF setup material, etc.
• 5+ years’ experience in embedded platform development (Linux preferred)
• 5+ years’ experience with customer support and debugging techniques.
• Any program/project management with management report experience.
• Good communication skill.

Preferred Qualifications

• Customer success operations project management or related work experience
• Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience in connectivity HW development/support
• Experience with wireless and embedded processor platforms – Strong RF experience.
• Understanding of 802.11 family protocol (PHY, MAC and security). Highly experienced with PHY layer.
• Understanding and knowledge of regulatory standards (ETSI, IEEE, CENELEC, and relative technical standard).
• Experience with certification laboratory, specifically in EMC and WLAN certification testing.
• Familiar with TCP/IP and Networking protocols (DHCP, ICMP, Bridging, routing and etc)
• Knowledge of embedded low‑level SW for Linux
• Experience in using CRM platform (Salesforce, Jira), in customer dashboards report, in management reporting would be a bonus.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self‑motivated and quick learner
• Good team player
• Ability to perform under pressure
• Willingness to travel when needed

Skills

• Monitors and utilizes computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day.
• Continuous communication which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.
• Frequent travel across Europe, occasional international travels (US/APAC)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.

OR

• Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.

OR

• PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience or related work experience.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.