Experienced Linux

Company:

Qualcomm International, Inc. Australia Branch Office

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Software Engineering

General Summary:

Opportunity to join Qualcomm's highly regarded Hypervisor team in Sydney and play a key role in developing future virtualization technology. Ideal for engineers with strong Linux kernel development experience, with virtualization and hypervisor experience highly valued.

Job Overview:

Qualcomm is looking for a talented and enthusiastic software engineer with strong experience in OS, kernel and computer architecture. Qualcomm's Sydney Hypervisor team is world-leading, enabling virtualisation across multiple chipset products for mobile, automotive and IoT. The team is responsible for the hypervisor software layer that plays a key role in platform security and performance.

Qualcomm is industry leading in its adoption of virtualisation technology in its Snapdragon mobile products. The team has built the open-source Gunyah hypervisor and continues to develop innovative features and enhancements. We also support Linux based virtualization and are extending virtualization across additional products.

As a software engineer at Qualcomm, you will directly contribute to Hypervisor, IOMMU, Linux kernel, secure partition manager and related software for the latest cutting‑edge ARM processors, which are embedded in a wide range of Qualcomm's chipset products and used by many OEMs in millions of devices. The role will include interfacing with large software stacks such as Firmware and TF-A, Linux, Android and TrustZone – which provides the opportunity to interact with teams around the world.

Responsibilities:

- Design, contribute to and review new features that elegantly solve problems and meet product requirements.

- Develop code to a high quality and assist in reviewing code developed by other engineers.

- Mentor and train junior engineers.

- Triage of software issues, defect investigation and problem resolution.

- Collaborate with other teams on new feature requests, integration and problem solving to identify and resolve issues.

- Technical documentation including APIs, manuals, and user guides.

Qualcomm values diversity and inclusion. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage applications from underrepresented groups in tech.

Skills and Experience:

We are looking for engineers from a range of backgrounds and experience, including graduates and experienced kernel and systems developers.

Skills that may be relevant:

- Strong understanding and experience in C programming.

- Strong understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and kernels.

- Linux / kernel, RTOS, bootloader or OS development experience, including writing device drivers and interfacing hardware.

- Good CPU architecture knowledge, including ARM CPUs.

- Understanding of virtualisation and Hypervisors highly desirable.

- Experience with multi‑processing or multi‑threading, concurrency, and synchronisation.

- Experience with software certification, including ASIL and similar, and secure coding practices is desirable.

- Strong debugging skills; including understanding of assembly code, use of tools such as GDB, Trace32.

- Good understanding of toolchains and systems libraries (libc etc).

- Python, shell scripting and Linux based development environment.

- Good communication and presentation skills.

- Test development and test automation.

- Demonstrated independent worker, software design experience, good analytic and problem‑solving skills.

Education Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field.

- Or significant relevant equivalent employment experience.

Eligibility to work in Australia without employer sponsorship is required.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

- 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.

Applicants:

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