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General Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Senior RF Design Validation and Test Engineer specializing in wireless connectivity technologies, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, LTE, 5G sub-6 GHz, and Ultra-Wideband (UWB) IEEE 802.15.4ab (6-9 GHz). The ideal candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in radio system integration and system-level RF characterization, including modem and radio components. This role requires expertise in front-end tuning, impedance matching, and the ability to troubleshoot and optimize RF performance in real-world applications. A minimum of 10 years of experience is required, along with the ability to lead junior team members and collaborate with cross-functional teams to plan, execute, and debug complex RF systems in a lab environment.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Test Engineering or related work experience.Preferred Qualifications:
• 8+ years of Systems Test Engineering or related work experience.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Conducts log analyses with team members to identify where an issue has occurred and makes recommendations for how to address the issue.
• Verifies that proposed solutions to identified issues accurately address and correct the problem and do not impact other functionalities.
• Reviews functional test and adds additional test cases when necessary to ensure that issues are fully understood and analyzed.
• Reviews results documents to assist team in determining root causes of testing errors and determines best way to debug. Prioritizes errors as required.
• Identifies test requirements based on input from team and manager with minimal oversight.
• Participates in project review sessions within team to deliver constructive feedback on testing problems encountered by more junior staff.
• Displays expertise for the different features of the system.
• Collects information (e.g., logs, requirements) across team members and identifies fundamental patterns/trends related to systems testing.
• Reviews performance test and adds additional test cases when necessary to ensure that issues are fully understood and analyzed.
• Serves as a mentor to Engineers and Senior Engineers and teaches them about complex features, systems, testing strategies, and automation.
• Addresses general technical issues and escalates only highly complex technical issues to tech leads or Principal Engineers.
• Determines if issues should be tested in the field or in the lab and ensures that all possible scenarios are addressed in the test plans.
• Collaborates with functional and lab teams, IO teams, network operators, field teams, and product management teams to ensure that the testing plan is accurate for addressing feature issues.
• Implements a testing plan by attempting to cause a failure within multiple areas of code.
Level of Responsibility:
• Working independently with little supervision.
• Making decisions that are moderate in impact; errors may have financial impact or effect on projects, operations, or customer relationships; errors may require involvement beyond immediate work group to correct.
• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. May require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
• Having a moderate amount of influence over key organizational decisions (e.g., is consulted by senior leadership to provide input on key decisions).
• Completing tasks that do not have defined steps; simultaneous use of multiple mental abilities is generally required to determine the best approach; mistakes may result in significant rework.
• Exercising substantial creativity to innovate new processes, procedures, or work products within guidelines or to achieve established objectives.
• Using deductive and inductive problem solving; multiple approaches may be taken/necessary to solve the problem; often information is missing or conflicting; advanced data analysis and interpretation skills are required.
• Occasionally participates in strategic planning within own area affecting immediate operations.
The responsibilities of this role do not include:
• Financial accountability (e.g., does not involve budgeting responsibility).
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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:
$130,600.00 - $195,800.00The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.
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