Senior Software Engineer - Hypervisor

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design, development, and integration of SoC firmware features, diagnostics, and test capabilities for QCT boot platforms.
• Coordinate and collaborate across a wide range of technical areas including software, hardware, ASIC, integration, architecture, and emulation teams.
• Pay attention to details during all phases of firmware design, development, integration, testing, and release, including verifying and debugging firmware, drivers, and resolving platform issues with emulation and hardware design teams.
• Write efficient and secure code, drive code reviews of firmware logic updates with all required stakeholders.
• Ensure on-time execution of tasks and deliverables, driving dependencies with other teams to closure.
• Triage software issues, investigate defects, and resolve problems.
• Create technical documentation including APIs, manuals, and user guides.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 2+ years of software engineering experience, or Master's degree with 1+ year, or PhD in a related field.
• 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Strong understanding or experience with C.
• Knowledge of computer architecture, operating systems, and kernels, including Linux, kernel, bootloader, or OS development experience.
• ARM CPU architecture knowledge, including IOMMU and ARM SMMU, hypervisors, and virtualization.
• Experience with multi-processing or multi-threading, concurrency, synchronization, and interfacing hardware via device drivers.
• Experience with secure coding, debugging tools such as GDB, Lauterbach Trace32, and understanding assembly.
• Familiarity with real-time OS, toolchains, and systems libraries (libc, etc).
• Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, and Linux-based development environment.
• Good communication and presentation skills.
• Experience in test development and automation.
• Contributing to open-source projects and demonstrated independent software design skills.
• Any automotive and functional safety experience may also be relevant.

Nice to Have

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of software engineering experience.
• 1+ year of experience with Git, Perforce, or other source code management systems.
• Experience with secure coding practices.
• Experience with automotive and functional safety.
• Experience with real-time operating systems and system libraries.
• Experience in developing and testing firmware for complex hardware platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 2+ years of experience.
• Master's degree in the same fields with 1+ year of experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, or Computer Science.

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range of $111,300.00 - $166,900.00.
• Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
• Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
• Highly competitive benefits package supporting success at work, home, and play.
• Additional details available through Qualcomm recruiters.