3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead triage, root-cause analysis, debugging, and resolution of system stability issues across QNX HQX and HGY automotive platforms.
- Debug kernel, process, resource-manager, hypervisor, guest OS, driver, inter-VM communication, and framework-level failures.
- Analyze ramdumps, minidumps, and guest dumps using Qualcomm diagnostic toolchains and drive stability Change Requests through patch validation and customer-branch integration.
- Develop and validate stability test automation, dump parsers, triage tools, and CI/CD-integrated diagnostic frameworks.
- Drive MTBF improvements, stability trend analysis, test-case generation, and risk communication across automotive program milestones.
- Serve as the customer-facing stability SME for OEM and Tier-1 escalations and support bring-up, pre-CS, post-CS, and critical program activities.
- Lead cross-functional stability reviews, provide architectural guidance, mentor engineers, and create debugging documentation and training materials.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master's degree with 3+ years or a PhD with 2+ years.
- At least 2 years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python and at least 1 year of debugging experience.
- At least 3 years of hands-on embedded-system stability debugging experience and 3+ years of C, C++, Python, or similar programming experience in embedded or real-time environments.
- Strong knowledge of QNX architecture, including process management, IPC, resource managers, POSIX interfaces, and real-time scheduling.
- Experience debugging QNX HQX systems and Linux kernels, including panics, KASAN, UBSAN, ftrace, and perf.
- Experience with multi-OS hypervisor stacks, VM communication, hypervisor fault isolation, and guest OS crash analysis.
- Experience with QDSS, QFIL, QXDM, Axiom, Crashscope, PCAT, ramdump parsers, and guest-dump analysis.
- At least 3 years of customer-facing technical support experience and the ability to document RCAs and communicate technical findings.
- Preferred qualifications include Staff-level automotive platform-stability ownership, HGY/Gunyah expertise, Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive chipset experience, security-related stability testing, ASPICE and ASIL familiarity, global OEM/Tier-1 collaboration, AutoRFI and NRE scoping, and MTBF or stability-dashboard analysis.
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.