Qualcomm Linux Kernel Developer Engineer 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

721805836

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs. Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

• Job function: Work on Linux Kernel development for enabling and supporting Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets and products

• Good to Have Linux Open-Source Contributions /Linux Upstreaming experience.

• Skills/experience:

• Excellent knowledge of OS fundamentals, data structure, Linux kernel and the device driver model

• Excellent programming skills and expert level knowledge of C

• Specific experience and expertise in any of kernel subsystems – core kernel, device drivers, memory, ARM subsystems etc.

• Highly skilled in debug using any debugger like T32, gdb and crash analysis sing T32, crash utility etc.

• Expert in using tracing and other related tools to identify performance bottlenecks and solve them

• Well versed with other development tools like tool chain, version control etc.

• Background experience in Android is a plus

• Responsibilities:

• Work with cross teams to develop and support various features in Linux kernel to support Android on Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets

• Work on latest bleeding edge ARMv9 CPUs and features

• Closely work with power and performance to analyze and identify performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations.

• Enable and support other teams that use supported Linux kernel features

• Identify and support core set of tools for assisting Linux Kernel development, debug and support

• Education requirements: Bachelors or Masters in CS or ECE

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.