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Application Engineer

Qualcomm

Toronto, CAonsite$75k-$113k/yrPosted Jun 3, 2026

Skills

pythonc++

About the role

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Applications Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Application Engineer, you will provide technical expertise of hardware through trainings, product demonstrations, and the design, debug, test, and quality support of customer products. Qualcomm Hardware Application Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess the potential application of company products that meet and exceed customer needs.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

As an Qualcomm Mixed-Signal IP Application Engineer, you are responsible for working in the post-silicon application team to bring-up UCIe IP on SoCs for internal product teams and external customers. In this role, you will interact with the internal product teams and customers to support their integration, validation, and bring-up of the UCIe IP in advanced technology nodes such as 7nm, 5nm, 3nm and 2nm.

What You’ll Do:

Be part of growing team to work closely with Post-Silicon Validation, Firmware, System, and Design teams to bring-up Qualcomm's Mixed-Signal IPs on customer platforms. You will also be involved in the post-silicon bring-up of our in-house test chips.

Drive technical communication to customers from silicon bring-up to production.

Collaborate with architects, hardware designers, validation and software teams to define and implement robust solutions.

Work on system-level debugging with in-house SW and FW diagnostics and tools.

Occasional interaction with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, BERTs, protocol analyzers) to analyze PHY performance.

Occasional travel may be required.

You will be reporting to the Senior Director of Application Engineering

What You’ll Need:

Bachelor's and/or Master's Degree in Electrical and/or Electronic Engineering.

Solid debugging skills for firmware and system-level bring-up.

Experience with C/C++ for embedded systems.

Experience in Python as a scripting language for test automation and debugging.

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills in a fast-paced development environment.

Experience working in ASIC design, verification, or post-silicon validation in one of the high-speed IP interfaces such as UCIe, DDR, PCIe, or Ethernet

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.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$75,400.00 - $113,200.00

The 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.

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

Compensation

This Software Engineer role pays $75k-$113k/yr. Within typical range for software engineer roles in Canada.

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