Senior Connectivity Software Engineer

Description

HP IQ is the new AI innovation lab at HP, set up with a startup's pace and backed by HP's global scale.

The lab builds intelligent technologies, and the team includes engineers, designers, researchers and product people working on an intelligent ecosystem across HP's product portfolio.

The team builds AI features into HP products and services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and integrate connectivity software features on Android, Windows and embedded platforms, including SDKs, frameworks and system services.
• Implement, optimize and tune wireless networking protocols and sensing algorithms for enterprise-scale architectures and deployments.
• Design, implement and troubleshoot peer-to-peer technologies that provide secure, reliable, low-latency connectivity across varied networking scenarios.
• Work closely with wireless chipset vendors, industry partners and internal engineering teams to align designs, debug system-level issues and optimize end-to-end connectivity performance.
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex wireless behavior, including performance degradation, QoS bottlenecks, interoperability problems and security constraints in large-scale networks.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering or a related technical field.
• Have 6+ years of experience in device software development, covering connectivity features, performance tuning and debugging.
• Have 3+ years of experience building software SDKs or frameworks on Android, Linux or similar operating systems.
• Be strong in Java, C, C++ or Objective-C, with solid software engineering fundamentals such as OO design, debugging and system-level architecture.
• Be familiar with radio standards such as 802.11 and Bluetooth and understand the related protocol stacks.
• Have experience working across hardware, OS, QA and other cross-functional engineering teams.
• Work independently, drive technical tasks to completion and clearly explain root-cause findings to senior leaders and partners.
• Preferred: proficiency in C/C++ and embedded systems programming for performance-critical wireless features.
• Preferred: a strong grasp of peer-to-peer technologies and sensing techniques.
• Preferred: experience working directly with wireless chipset vendors to optimize connectivity performance and resolve interoperability issues.
• Preferred: comfort working across Linux, Windows, embedded systems, cloud-managed networks and mobile OS stacks.
• Preferred: expertise in wireless performance analysis with tools such as Wireshark, logging frameworks and low-level tracing.

Conditions

The final salary depends on factors such as job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills. The salary range is shown in the posting header.

Equal opportunity applies to all candidates.

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, an employee assistance program and a flexible spending account.
• 4 to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave depending on tenure, 11 paid holidays, and flexible paid vacation and sick leave.
• Startup-style autonomy with HP's scale behind the work, a flexible work environment and a culture that learns fast and looks ahead.