1 month ago
Turin, ItalySenior
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture, assembly, maintenance, and release engineering of Qualcomm’s custom Linux distribution, including rootfs, package management pipelines, repositories, and image generation.
- Design and build system-level components, tools, utilities, and daemons in C, Go, or Rust for custom hardware and kernel features.
- Develop with an upstream-first approach and contribute to mainline projects and open-source engineering communities.
- Maintain and optimize Debian packages, dependency trees, repositories, and reproducible distribution builds.
- Optimize bootloaders, initramfs, systemd/init systems, and early boot behavior for speed, security, and deterministic operation.
- Use containerization and isolation technologies to create reproducible build pipelines and enforce secure on-device application access.
- Bridge internal teams and upstream engineers to align OS plumbing with Qualcomm silicon capabilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or a related field plus 6+ years of hardware engineering or related experience; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 5+ years or a PhD plus 4+ years.
- Strong understanding of Linux OS architecture, including process lifecycle, memory management, VFS, and the networking stack.
- Proficiency in C and at least one of Go, Rust, advanced Python, or advanced Bash.
- Experience with open-source mailing lists and mainline-first development practices.
- Hands-on experience with systemd, udev, D-Bus, network configuration, and standard Linux command-line tooling.
- Proficiency with Docker, LXC, or Podman for containerization, isolation, and reproducible build pipelines.
- Strong Debian packaging expertise with dpkg, apt, debootstrap, custom repositories, and complex dependency trees is preferred.
- Familiarity with Linux security primitives including namespaces, cgroups, SELinux, AppArmor, and dm-verity is preferred.
- Equivalent experience may be considered when the candidate demonstrates the ability to fulfill the principal duties and required competencies.
Benefits
- Qualcomm provides a competitive benefits package designed to support employees at work, at home, and at play.
- The posting mentions an annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants.
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.