2 days ago
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Responsibilities
- Own technical planning, execution, and delivery of Linux software milestones across platform bring-up, stabilization, and releases.
- Drive BSP and platform enablement for SoCs, including bootloaders, kernels, Device Tree, drivers, and root filesystems.
- Coordinate kernel, Yocto/build, middleware, validation, security, customer, silicon, firmware, hardware, and power/performance teams.
- Provide technical guidance on Linux kernel internals, Device Tree, Yocto/build systems, and UEFI, U-Boot, and fastboot boot flows.
- Track feature readiness, risks, quality metrics, release artifacts, documentation, and hand-offs.
- Drive root-cause analysis and resolution of system-level boot, stability, performance, and CVE issues.
- Promote upstream-first development, open-source compliance, patch quality, licensing, maintainability, and community engagement.
- Support technical reviews, issue triage, roadmap alignment, and translation of customer and product requirements into execution plans.
- Present status, risks, and technical trade-offs to leadership and stakeholders.
Requirements
- 6 to 9 years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field with 3+ years of software engineering or related work experience; alternatively, a master's degree with 2+ years or a PhD with 1+ year.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Strong expertise in Linux kernel internals, including drivers, power, memory, scheduling, and security.
- Hands-on experience with embedded Linux BSP development, ARM-based SoCs, and hardware bring-up.
- Working knowledge of Yocto, OWRT, BitBake, Device Tree, UEFI, U-Boot, ftrace, perf, gdb, crash, and JTAG.
- Experience driving complex, multi-team technical programs and managing dependencies, risks, milestones, and delivery deadlines.
- Preferred qualifications include mainline Linux development or upstream contributions, virtualization with KVM, Xen, or Gunyah, security hardening, CVE management, compliance, and prior Tech Lead, System Lead, or Project Engineer experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence without authority and work with senior engineers, architects, executives, and distributed teams.
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.