Senior Software Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm International, Inc. Australia Branch Office

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm is looking for talented and enthusiastic engineers with strong interests in OS, kernel and computer architecture. The Qualcomm 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 virtualization technology in its Snapdragon mobile products. The team has built the open-source Gunyah hypervisor and continues to develop innovative features, enhancements, and use-cases.

As a software engineer at Qualcomm, you will help develop hypervisor, SMMU and related software for the latest cutting-edge ARM processors, which is embedded in a wide range of chipset products and used by many OEMs in millions of devices. The role will include interfacing with large software stacks such as Bootloaders, Linux and TrustZone – which provides the opportunity to interact with teams around the world.

Gunyah is an open-source Type-1 hypervisor, it is independent of any high-level OS kernel and runs in a higher CPU privilege level. It does not depend on any lower-privileged OS kernel/code for its core functionality. This increases its security and can support a much smaller trusted computing base.

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.

．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.

．All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.

Minimum Qualifications:

•    Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Skills and Experience

．Strong understanding or experience with C.

．An understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and kernels.

．Linux, kernel, bootloader or OS development experience.

．ARM CPU architecture knowledge.

．Hypervisors and virtualization.

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

．Writing device drivers and interfacing hardware.

．Experience with secure coding.

．Use of debugging tools such as GDB, Lauterbach Trace32 and understanding assembly.

．Real-time OS.

．Toolchains and systems libraries (libc etc).

．Python, shell scripting and Linux based development environment.

．Good communication and presentation skills.

．Test development and test automation.

．Contributing to open-source projects.

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

．Any automotive and functional safety experience may also be relevant.

Education requirements

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

．Or relevant equivalent practical experience

．Eligibility to work in Australia is required.

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