Qualcomm seeks a Principal Engineer with 18+ years of Linux kernel, KVM, or TEE development experience to lead the design and development of security, virtualization, confidential compute, and trusted execution environment features for next-generation RISC-V SoCs. The role requires hands-on technical leadership at the hardware–software intersection, driving upstream contributions to OpenSBI, KVM, and the Linux kernel, collaborating with hardware teams on silicon and emulation bring-up, and guiding compliance test integration.… Strong expertise in virtualization, confidential compute, TEEs, and debugging tools (ftrace, perf, kgdb, crash) is essential; RISC-V architecture exposure and proven open-source community contributions are highly valued.
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Design, develop, and optimize high-performance Ethernet networking and data-path drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon and Dragonwing SoCs, working across Linux kernel/QNX networking stacks, device drivers, and SoC hardware. Collaborate with hardware architecture, platform software, validation, and customer teams to deliver production-quality Ethernet solutions.… Responsibilities include low-level software development (drivers, firmware, RTOS/kernel modules), on-target debugging, cross-functional integration, technical design reviews, and end-to-end feature ownership from requirements through commercialization. Provide mentorship to junior engineers and support customer issues with robust fixes.
Senior Staff Software Engineer leading technical strategy and architecture for networking software solutions at Qualcomm. Requires 7+ years of embedded software, systems software, or device driver development experience with deep C programming expertise and Linux kernel internals knowledge.… Will own technical execution plans, lead cross-functional engineering teams, influence product direction, and mentor engineers while balancing performance, scalability, reliability, and long-term roadmap requirements.