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Senior Software Engineer - Hypervisor

Qualcomm, San Diego, California, United States, 92189

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Company Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary Qualcomm is looking for talented and enthusiastic engineers with strong interests in OS, kernel and computer architecture. The Qualcomm Hypervisor team is world‑leading, enabling virtualization across multiple chipset products for mobile, automotive, compute and IoT. The team is responsible for the hypervisor software layers that play a key role in platform security and performance. Qualcomm is industry leading in its adoption of virtualization technology in its Snapdragon mobile products. The team has built hypervisor and SMMU expertise and continues to develop innovative features, enhancements, and use‑cases. As a software engineer at Qualcomm, you will help develop SMMU, hypervisor and related software for the latest cutting‑edge application processors, which are embedded in a wide range of chipset products and used by many OEMs in millions of devices. The role will include interfacing with large software stacks such as bootloaders, Linux and TrustZone, providing an opportunity to interact with teams around the world.

Responsibilities

Design, development and integration of SoC firmware features, diagnostics and test capabilities for QCT boot platforms.

Strong coordination and collaboration across a wide range of technical areas, including software, hardware, ASIC, integration, architecture, and emulation teams.

Pay attention to the details during all phases of firmware design, development, integration, testing and release.

Work with emulation and hardware design teams as necessary, in verifying and debugging firmware, driver and resolving platform issues.

Efficient and secure coding (cognizant of not exposing security exploits) and driving code review of firmware logic updates with all required stakeholders.

On‑time execution of defined tasks and deliverables, driving dependencies with other teams to closure.

Triage of software issues, defect investigation and problem resolution.

Technical documentation, including APIs, manuals and user guides.

Skills and Experience

Strong understanding or experience with C.

Experience with computer architecture, operating systems and kernels. Linux, kernel, bootloader or OS development experience.

ARM CPU architecture knowledge, IOMMU and ARM SMMU knowledge, hypervisors and virtualization.

Experience with multiprocessing, multi‑threading, concurrency and synchronization. Writing device drivers and interfacing hardware.

Experience with secure coding.

Use of debugging tools such as GDB, Lauterbach Trace32 and understanding assembly. Real‑time OS, toolchains and systems libraries (libc etc.).

Python, shell scripting and Linux based development environment.

Good communication and presentation skills.

Test development and test automation.

Contributing to open‑source projects.

Demonstrated independent software design, analytical and problem‑solving skills. Automotive and functional safety experience may also be relevant.

Minimum Qualifications

2+ years of academic or work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related experience.

Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

4+ years of Software Engineering experience.

1+ year of work experience with Git, Perforce, or Source Code Management System.

Strong understanding or experience with C.

Experience with computer architecture, operating systems and kernels. Linux, kernel, bootloader or OS development experience.

ARM CPU architecture knowledge, IOMMU and ARM SMMU knowledge, hypervisors and virtualization.

Experience with multiprocessing, multi‑threading, concurrency and synchronization. Writing device drivers and interfacing hardware.

Experience with secure coding.

Use of debugging tools such as GDB, Lauterbach Trace32 and understanding assembly. Real‑time OS, toolchains and systems libraries (libc etc.).

Python, shell scripting and Linux based development environment.

Good communication and presentation skills.

Test development and test automation.

Contributing to open‑source projects.

Demonstrated independent software design, analytical and problem‑solving skills. Automotive and functional safety experience may also be relevant.

Equal Employment Opportunity Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e‑mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries.)

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits $111,300.00 - $166,900.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Salary is only one component of total compensation. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales‑incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at link.

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