Firmware Development Engineer, Sr. Staff
Qualcomm · San Diego, CA, US
Hiring signals for Software Developers
SOC 15-1252 — measured across all currently-active postings classified to this occupation.
49
/ 100
Cooling
Software Developers Job Market Score
Driven by
- Pay is above the national median ($185k vs $138k national)
- Slow inflow of new postings (only 6% from the last 14 days)
- Few reposted listings (29% appear duplicated)
Software Developers job market
Aggregated from currently-active postings tracked in Software Developers.
- 34,009Active postings
- 1,108Posted this week
- 12,131Open 30+ days36% of active
- 4,093Remote / hybrid12% of active
- 8%List salary2,803 of 34,009
- 0%Hourly0 of disclosed
- $185kMedian annual (max)
- —Median hourly (max)
- 21dMedian agep90 67d (long tail)
Wages by category
Wages by employment type
Wages by sector
Top categories
- Engineering6,624
- Full-stack1,620
- Backend1,604
- ML / AI Engineering1,284
- Data Engineering869
- Engineering Manager719
In-demand skills
- Python3,364
- Java2,570
- AWS2,498
- Azure1,685
- Agile1,676
- Kubernetes1,387
- SQL1,350
- Go1,348
Top sectors
- Technology21,338
- Manufacturing15,677
- Financial Services4,159
- Government / Public Sector3,077
- Professional Services2,951
- Healthcare1,500
Employment mix
- Unspecified31,146 · 92%
- Full-time1,088 · 3%
- Contract938 · 3%
- Intern675 · 2%
- Temporary95 · 0%
- Part-time67 · 0%
Top hiring companies
- Category
- Engineering
- Source
- careers.qualcomm.com
- Original link
- https://careers.qualcomm.com/careers/job/446715297601
- ATS
- Workday
- Posted
- 2 weeks ago (2026-04-26)
- Status
- active
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- Rejected · 0
- Hired · 0
- Posting still active · 0
- Posting removed · 0
- Reposted · 0
- Suspicious · 0
- Description vague · 0
- Salary unclear · 0
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