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General Summary:
Opportunity to join Qualcomm's highly regarded Hypervisor team in Sydney and play a key role in developing future virtualization technology. Ideal for engineers with strong Linux kernel development experience, with virtualization and hypervisor experience highly valued.
Qualcomm is looking for a talented and enthusiastic software engineer with strong experience in OS, kernel and computer architecture. Qualcomm's 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 virtualisation technology in its Snapdragon mobile products. The team has built the open-source Gunyah hypervisor and continues to develop innovative features and enhancements. We also support Linux based virtualization and are extended virtualization across additional products.
As a software engineer at Qualcomm, you will directly contribute to Hypervisor, IOMMU, Linux kernel, secure partition manager and related software for the latest cutting-edge ARM processors, which are embedded in a wide range of Qualcomm's chipset products and used by many OEMs in millions of devices. The role will include interfacing with large software stacks such as Firmware and TF-A, Linux, Android and TrustZone – which provides the opportunity to interact with teams around the world.
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.
Mentor and train junior 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.
Qualcomm values diversity and inclusion. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage applications from underrepresented groups in tech.
We are looking for engineers from a range of backgrounds and experience, including graduates and experienced kernel and systems developers.
Skills that may be relevant
Strong understanding and experience in C programming.
Strong understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, and kernels.
Linux / kernel, RTOS, bootloader or OS development experience, including writing device drivers and interfacing hardware.
Good CPU architecture knowledge, including ARM CPUs.
Understanding of virtualisation and Hypervisors highly desirable.
Experience with multi-processing or multi-threading, concurrency, and synchronisation.
Experience with software certification, including ASIL and similar, and secure coding practices is desirable.
Strong debugging skills; including understanding of assembly code, use of tools such as GDB, Trace32.
Good understanding of toolchains and systems libraries (libc etc).
Python, shell scripting and Linux based development environment.
Good communication and presentation skills.
Test development and test automation.
Demonstrated independent worker, software design experience, good analytic and problem-solving skills.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field.
Or significant relevant equivalent employment experience.
Eligibility to work in Australia without employer sponsorship is required.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related 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).
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