Engineer, Senior - Hypervisor

Nuvia

Nuvia

Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Posted on Jun 10, 2025

Job Description

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science
  • Master’s degree in computer science

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Mandatory:

  • Strong expertise in the C programming language
  • Experience with ARM-based embedded systems
  • Proficiency in ARM architecture, including ARMv8 and ARMv9
  • Understanding of virtual memory management, page tables, and TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer) management
  • Strong understanding of basic OS concepts such as scheduling, memory management and locking mechanisms
  • Hands-on experience in writing device drivers in C
  • Experience with debuggers such as gdb, T32 for issues debugging

Preferred skills:

  • Hands-on experience with ARM-based hypervisors and virtualization platforms
  • Experience with ARM-based virtualization solutions like Xen, KVM etc
  • Experience with ARM System Memory Management Unit (SMMU), including its role in address translation and memory protection
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Familiarity with CPU scheduling algorithms, including how hypervisors manage virtual CPU scheduling across physical cores
  • Experience with Linux Kernel development
  • Familiarity of open source VM management tools such as QEMU, kvmtool etc

Good to have:

  • Python, shell scripting and Linux based development environment
  • Strong knowledge of ARM TrustZone technology
  • Participation in open-source related activities

Level of Responsibility:

• Works under supervision.

Decision-making may affect work beyond immediate work group.

• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information. May require basic negotiation, influence, tact, etc.

• Tasks do not have defined steps; planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.