2 days ago
Base Salary
$118k - $177k/yr
Responsibilities
- Bring up Linux kernel and userspace on new server-class hardware while ensuring functionality and stability.
- Implement and maintain build, packaging, testing, and CI/CD workflows.
- Develop internal Linux distribution integration and debug build, packaging, and platform bring-up issues.
- Collaborate with hardware and firmware engineers to resolve bootloader, ACPI, and secure boot issues.
- Test and validate changes for major Linux distributions and contribute patches to upstream Linux communities.
- Document processes and share knowledge with internal developers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of software engineering or related experience; or a master’s degree plus 1+ year; or a PhD.
- At least 2 years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Proficiency with Bash and Python, working knowledge of C/C++, and strong software engineering fundamentals.
- Experience debugging complex Linux systems across kernel and userspace.
- Proficiency with Git and GitHub-based workflows or similar, including modern CI/CD systems.
- Experience with enterprise Linux distributions, packaging, update mechanisms, upstream integration, and data center deployment practices.
- Familiarity with Debian and RPM packaging, GitHub Actions or Jenkins, Linux kernel configuration, ACPI, UEFI, and kconfig.
- Experience contributing to upstream Linux kernel or userspace projects is preferred; familiarity with QEMU, KVM, Docker, and Kubernetes is desirable.
- Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, planning, and prioritization skills.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Annual base pay range of $117,800.00–$176,600.00.
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.