Engineer - FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software)

16 Hours ago • 2 Years +

Job Summary

Job Description

The FOSS Engineer will ensure license compliance, enhance software license reporting, and maintain a software bill of materials. Responsibilities include automating compliance processes, educating the development community, and collaborating with teams. Key responsibilities involve ensuring license compliance, enhancing software license reporting, maintaining a software bill of materials for all product lines, recommending license and security compliance tools, and improving software development processes. The engineer will also educate the development community on software compliance practices, automate software and security compliance, and document processes and procedures. They will also collaborate with the legal team, interface with tools vendors, develop and implement open-source compliance policies, and report activities to stakeholders. They will also perform code auditing and vetting and provide recommendations to the Product Team and legal departments.
Must have:
  • Ensure license compliance in software products.
  • Enhance software license reporting for open-source software.
  • Maintain software bill of materials for product lines.
  • Experience with license and OSS compliance reporting.
Good to have:
  • Familiarity or experience with OpenChain standard.
  • Experience with Linux, binary images, and containers.
  • Ability to read programming languages such as C/C++.

Job Details


Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Experience: 2 Years

Job Summary:

We are seeking a skilled and motivated FOSS Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in open-source software development, compliance, and security. You will be responsible for ensuring license compliance, enhancing software license reporting, and maintaining a software bill of materials for all product lines. Your role will also involve automating compliance processes, educating the development community, and collaborating with various teams to ensure adherence to licensing obligations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure license compliance in software products.

  • Enhance software license compliance and reporting for open-source and third-party software.

  • Maintain and publish a software bill of materials for all product lines per software release.

  • Survey and recommend license and security compliance tools.

  • Improve software development processes for compliance best practices.

  • Educate the development community regarding software compliance practices.

  • Automate software and security compliance and inventory reports.

  • Document processes and procedures.

  • Collaborate with the legal team to provide answers to customer or partner inquiries.

  • Interface with tools vendors and their support teams when issues arise.

  • Develop and implement open-source compliance policies and procedures.

  • Regularly report activities and status to key stakeholders.

  • Perform code auditing/vetting and provide recommendations for compliance in software products to the Product Team and legal departments.

Technical Skills Requirements:

  • Experience with license and OSS compliance reporting and publishing.

  • Familiarity or experience with OpenChain standard and implementation.

  • Direct experience using Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools such as Blackduck or equivalent.

  • Experience with Linux, binary images, packages, containers, and source code repositories such as Git.

  • Ability to read programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, Go.

  • Ability to automate license compliance reporting and integrate it into CI/CD processes.

  • Strong attention to detail and high-quality output.

  • Ability to work independently, drive improvements, meet schedules, and exhibit strong writing skills.

  • Experience with Linux OS is preferred.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Associate's degree.
OR
High School Diploma or equivalent and 2+ years of relevant work experience.

Applicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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