Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Staff Engineer to lead the design, development, and upstreaming of Linux kernel features for our next-generation Arm-based Server SoCs. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who thrives at the intersection of hardware and software, and is passionate about building robust, scalable, and high-performance Linux platforms for data center and cloud infrastructure.

You will play a critical role in defining kernel architecture, enabling new hardware features, and ensuring compliance with industry standards such as Arm SystemReady SR, BSA, SBSA, and BBR.

General Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Staff Engineer for the design and development of security, virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution environment (TEE) features in our next-generation Qualcomm SoCs. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who thrives at the intersection of hardware and software and is passionate about RISC-V architecture.

You will play a critical role in defining the architecture, enabling new hardware features, and ensuring compliance with industry standards such as RISC-V hypervisor extension, RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI), RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI), RISC-V Confidential Compute (CoVE), and RISC-V supervisor domains.

Key Responsibilities

Contribute to architecture and development of security, virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution features.
Drive upstream contributions to the OpenSBI, KVM and Linux kernel, ensuring long-term maintainability and community alignment.
Collaborate with hardware and platform teams to enable security, virtualization, confidential compute, and trusted execution features.
Collaborate with hardware engineers to enable software stack on silicon and emulation platforms, debug hardware-software interactions, and ensure seamless integration.
Guide the integration of compliance test suites for confidential compute and trusted execution features.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD 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.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of experience in Linux KVM or Linux kernel or TEE development.
Good understanding in virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution environments.
Strong debugging skills using tools like ftrace, perf, kgdb, crash, kernel logs and hardware debuggers.
Good experience with Git, GitHub or GitLab.

Nice To Have Qualifications

Exposure to the RISC-V architecture.
Good understanding of ARM virtualization extensions or ARM Trustzone or ARM CCA or RISC-V hypervisor extensions or RISC-V CoVE
Proven experience in upstreaming patches and working with the Linux KVM or Linux kernel community.
Proven experience in working with Industry standard groups and proposing specification changes.
Platform or SoC bring-up on silicon, emulation, and simulation platforms.
Contributions or maintainer-ship in any open-source project.
Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines.

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RISC - V Software Engineer Staff