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Taipei, TaiwanSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and debug SoC boot flows across storage interfaces, bootloader stages, and Linux kernel initialization.
- Support OEM/ODM board bring-up, Linux BSP integration, pre-production validation, and customer escalations.
- Debug boot and runtime issues involving device trees, peripheral drivers, kernel modules, and platform drivers.
- Develop and maintain U-Boot/ABL bootloader modules and Linux kernel drivers for storage, display, and power management.
- Optimize Linux boot time and system stability using profiling and tracing tools.
- Collaborate with customers, BIOS vendors, internal platform teams, and validation labs to resolve issues and commercialize products.
- Prepare technical presentations, product documentation, application notes, FAQs, and customer-specific software customizations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or above in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or an equivalent higher-level degree alternative.
- At least 5 years of embedded systems or Linux BSP/kernel development experience with hands-on board bring-up.
- Proficiency in C programming, Linux kernel development, and the U-Boot framework.
- Strong understanding of SoC architecture, Linux boot flows, and UFS and SPI NOR storage interfaces.
- Experience validating SoC features under Linux and using kernel debugging techniques, JTAG, or serial consoles.
- Experience with ARM64, ACPI, Device Tree, kgdb, ftrace, dmesg, or perf is preferred.
- Experience with Yocto, OpenEmbedded, Android BSP build systems, ARM SystemReady, FWTS, dual-boot platforms, or BIOS vendors is preferred.
- Customer-facing experience, leadership interaction, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and good English technical reading and writing skills are preferred.
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.