1 day ago
Base Salary
$170k - $255k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance Linux Kernel features involving KVM virtualization, scheduling, memory management, and IOMMU.
- Optimize power and performance management technologies such as DVFS for ARM-based systems.
- Lead and collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to deliver scalable, high-performance software.
- Debug complex software issues using JTAG debuggers and contribute to Linux Kernel and other open-source projects.
- Drive system software improvements for ARMv8 and ARMv9 platforms, including FPGA- and QEMU-based pre-silicon development.
- Analyze requirements, propose system architectures, and maintain technical documentation.
- Lead security feature development, security assessments, vulnerability and risk remediation, threat analysis, security code reviews, and product security incident response.
- Supervise direct reports and influence significant technical and organizational decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years, master’s degree and 5+ years, or PhD and 4+ years of software engineering or related work experience.
- At least 3 years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Strong Linux Kernel development experience, especially with virtualization, KVM, schedulers, memory management, and device trees.
- Knowledge of ARMv8 and ARMv9 architecture, computer system architecture, board and SoC bring-up, device drivers, SPI, I2C, USB, and DDR memory controllers.
- Experience with Git or similar SCM tools, JTAG debugging, ARM-based platforms, and software performance-management tools.
- Prior open-source contributions, preferably to the Linux Kernel.
- Hands-on experience with embedded-systems software development methodologies.
- Master’s degree and additional software development experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants are offered in addition to base pay.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.