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Staff Software Engineer - Hypervisor

Qualcomm, Oregon, Illinois, United States, 61061


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Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software EngineeringGeneral 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 – which provides the 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 to include software, hardware, ASIC, integration, architecture, and emulation teams.Paying attention to the details during all phases of firmware design, development, integration, testing and release - Work with Emulation, HW design teams, as necessary, in verifying and debugging firmware, driver and resolving platform issues.Efficient and secure coding (i.e., cognizant of not exposing security exploits) plus 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.Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.ORMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.ORPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.Preferred Qualifications:Strong understanding or experience with C.An understanding of 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 multi-processing or 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, good analytic and problem-solving skills. Any automotive and functional safety experience may also be relevant.Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:$134,800.00 - $202,200.00The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. 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.If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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