Engineer - Embedded Security

Nuvia

Nuvia

Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Posted on Feb 10, 2026


Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors/ master's degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.

• 2 years of Software Engineering or related work experience

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Responsibilities
  • Responsible for leading team in timely, high-quality execution on larger, less-defined, moderately complex tasks
  • Planning work, including splitting into sub-tasks, clarifying requirements, and managing dependencies
  • Lead teams developing Security software in C for embedded platforms on ARM / RISCV processors
  • Handle increased complexity and ambiguity of new, exploratory, multi-domain, or multi-disciplinary tasks
  • Strong technical expertise and ownership for the modules owned with limited direction and oversight
  • Analyze product requirements, identify impacted areas, derive requirements, and produce suitable designs
  • Independently represent the team to internal and external stake holders / partners on their area of responsibility
  • Anticipate challenges. Excel at dealing with ambiguity, unforeseen setbacks, multi-tasking and changing priorities
  • Collaborate within and cross functional teams as required to ensure quality work products are delivered
  • Keep oneself up-to-date with industry trends and technology developments around the related areas of work
  • Responsible and accountable for timeliness and quality of own deliverables and work products and that of the team
  • Minimum Qualifications
  • Minimum 2 years of exp. in Software development preferably in Embedded and programming in C / Assembly
  • Strong understanding of Embedded hardware, Computer Architecture and Operating System concepts
  • Good understanding of OS concepts such as tasks, signals, timers, priorities, deadlocks, stacks, etc
  • Understanding of RTOS fundamentals like multi-threading, interrupt management, cache/memory management etc
  • Experience with code versioning tools (git / perforce) build tools (Makefiles/SCons), and debuggers like JTAG
  • Experience in leading and driving software development activities independently and working with multiple teams
  • Experience in managing software projects across all phases like Requirement analysis, Design and validations
  • Self-sufficient and capable of operating the team effectively under tight deadlines without close supervision
  • Good understanding of Software Security Concepts, Public Key Cryptography, ARM Trust zone, Virtualization etc.
  • Good communication skills & ability to work with engineers, partners & customers across cultures / geographical sites
  • Good expertise and experience on product security for embedded devices, which may include a subset of the following skillsets
  • Symmetric & Asymmetric Cryptography
  • Key management and applied cryptography
  • Secure provisioning and debug
  • Hardware access control
  • Exploit mitigation techniques
  • Vulnerability detection methods
  • Embedded/real time OS security
  • Platform isolation techniques
  • Protected virtualization
  • Trusted execution environment
  • Secure communications
  • Device integrity & Authentication

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