Hypervisor -Staff Engineer

General Summary:

Qualcomm is seeking talented and motivated engineers passionate about OS, kernel, and computer architecture to join the world-leading Hypervisor team. This team develops critical virtualization software layers that enhance platform security and performance across Qualcomm's Snapdragon mobile, automotive, compute, and IoT chipsets. You will work on cutting-edge firmware for SoCs, collaborating with global teams on large software stacks including Bootloaders, Linux, and TrustZone.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field with 8+ years of software engineering experience; OR
• Master's degree with 6+ years experience; OR
• PhD with 4+ years experience.
• Proficient in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python (2+ years experience).

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and integrate SoC firmware features, diagnostics, and tests for Qualcomm boot platforms.
• Collaborate closely with software, hardware, ASIC, integration, architecture, and emulation teams globally.
• Ensure detail-oriented firmware development, testing, debugging, and release, including coordination with hardware and emulation teams to resolve platform issues.
• Write efficient and secure code, perform thorough code reviews.
• Manage timely delivery of assigned tasks while coordinating dependencies with cross-functional teams.
• Triage software issues, conduct defect investigations, and resolve problems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation including APIs, manuals, and user guides.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Strong C programming skills.
• Deep understanding of computer architecture, OS, kernels, and Linux kernel or bootloader development.
• Knowledge of ARM CPU architecture, IOMMU, ARM SMMU, hypervisors, and virtualization.
• Experience with multi-threading, concurrency, synchronization, and device driver development.
• Familiarity with secure coding practices.
• Proficient with debugging tools (GDB, Lauterbach Trace32), assembly language, real-time OS, toolchains, and system libraries.
• Comfortable with Python, shell scripting, and Linux development environments.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills.
• Experience in test development, automation, and contributing to open-source projects.
• Strong analytical, independent software design, and problem-solving skills.
• Automotive and functional safety experience is a plus.