Qualcomm hiring early engineers

Qualcomm is circulating early-career software openings in India that point new engineers toward embedded systems and artificial intelligence work. (qualcomm.com) Qualcomm’s India early-career page says interns can convert to full-time roles, and it lists application windows that open in July for summer and six-month internships and in March for 11-month internships. (qualcomm.com) On Qualcomm’s careers site, software roles in India describe work on “embedded and cloud edge software,” the code that runs close to the chip rather than in a remote data center. A Hyderabad machine-learning posting dated January 4, 2026 says engineers work on running generative artificial intelligence models directly on Qualcomm chipsets. (careers.qualcomm.com) That same posting says the team is building around Qualcomm AI Runtime, a software kit for deploying neural-network models on system-on-chip hardware, and it names C, C++, Java and Python among the programming languages in scope. (careers.qualcomm.com) A separate Qualcomm Linux posting for Hyderabad describes the embedded side more plainly: engineers work across the Linux kernel and user space, with tools such as Yocto, OpenWrt, Docker and Kubernetes. That is the layer of software that makes devices boot, manage files, run processes and connect to networks. (careers.qualcomm.com) The compensation figures in the social post do not appear on the Qualcomm job pages reviewed here, so outside salary trackers are the closest public check. SixFigr says Qualcomm “Associate Engineer” pay for 0 to 1 years of experience in India centers around ₹18 lakh total compensation, while its fresher profiles span roughly ₹18.1 lakh to ₹46.4 lakh. (6figr.com) Those third-party numbers vary by title and are not company guidance. AmbitionBox places Qualcomm embedded software engineer pay in India between ₹12.2 lakh and ₹22.6 lakh a year for employees with 1 to 5 years of experience, which suggests role, location and stock awards can move totals sharply. (ambitionbox.com) The hiring pitch also came with a preparation roadmap in the linked social post, a sign that applicants are being steered toward specific interview topics rather than a generic résumé drop. The company’s own early-career page makes the same point more formally, saying interns get mentorship and that many convert into full-time jobs. (x.com) (qualcomm.com) For candidates, the immediate takeaway is narrower than “software jobs” and broader than one team: Qualcomm’s public descriptions tie early-career interest to low-level systems code, on-device artificial intelligence and the toolchains that connect chips to products. (careers.qualcomm.com 1) (careers.qualcomm.com 2)