1 day ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$100k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance Linux Kernel features related to virtualization, KVM, scheduling, memory management, and IOMMU.
- Optimize power and performance management technologies such as DVFS for ARM-based systems.
- Develop system software for ARMv8 and ARMv9 platforms and contribute to upstream Linux Kernel open-source projects.
- Analyze system requirements, propose system architectures, and maintain technical documentation.
- Perform pre-silicon development on FPGA-based platforms and QEMU.
- Debug complex software and hardware issues using JTAG debuggers and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams.
- Lead engineers and provide supervision to direct reports.
- Conduct security assessments, vulnerability and risk assessments, threat analysis, and security code reviews.
- Develop security architectures and features, drive remediation of security risks, and respond to product security incidents.
- Develop and deploy secure product development processes, training, and tools.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Preferred master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field with 3+ years of software development experience, or equivalent.
- Strong Linux Kernel development experience, particularly with KVM, schedulers, memory management, and device trees.
- Knowledge of ARMv8 and ARMv9 architecture and extensions.
- Understanding of computer system architecture, including cores, caches, memory models, and bus architecture.
- Experience with board and SoC bring-up, device drivers, peripheral buses, SPI, I2C, USB, and DDR memory controllers.
- Familiarity with Git and JTAG debugging technologies.
- Prior contributions to open-source projects such as the Linux Kernel.
- Strong debugging skills and practical experience with ARM-based platforms.
- Experience with software and system performance management tools and frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with embedded systems software development methodologies.
- Expertise in security assessments, vulnerability remediation, threat analysis, security architecture, and secure product development.
Benefits
- Onsite work in San Diego is required.
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants are available.
- Qualcomm offers a competitive benefits package supporting work, home, and personal well-being.
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.