Lead Engineer - Embedded Platform Development

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 and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate consistent, high quality, on-time, independent execution on moderately complex technical tasks.

• Strong technical expertise and ownership for the modules owned with limited direction and oversight. 

• Lead development efforts for Security software in C for embedded platforms on ARM / RISCV processors. 

• Responsible for planning, time management, and quality of own deliverables and of the team.

• Follow defined methodologies, processes, and procedures for various software development activities. 

• Triage, Debug, and resolve issues and bugs in the software through good problem-solving skills. 

• Collaborate within and cross functional teams as required to ensure quality work products are delivered. 

• Work on multiple assignments and demonstrate an ability and flexibility to cater to changing priorities. 

• Effectively resolve ambiguities in requirements and priorities; And independently resolve blocking issues.

• Keep oneself up to date with industry trends and technology developments around the related areas of work.

Minimum Qualifications 

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

• Minimum 6-8 years of experience in Embedded software development and programming in C / 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.

• Understanding of YOCTO/OWRT/Android build framework.

• Exposure of Linux device driver development, debugging, system stability, etc.

• Experience in leading and driving software development activities independently and working with multiple teams. 

• Good expertise and experience on product security for embedded devices, which may include a subset of the following skillsets:
  • Symmetric & Asymmetric Cryptography,
  • Device integrity & Authentication,
  • Secure communications, 
  • Trusted execution environment, 
  • Protected virtualization 
  • Platform isolation techniques, 
  • Embedded/real time OS security,
  • Vulnerability detection methods, 
  • Exploit mitigation techniques,
  • Hardware access control,
  • Secure provisioning and debug,
  • Key management and applied cryptography

Desirable Qualifications 

• Good understanding of and experience on embedded processor architectures like ARMv8/9 or RISC-V processors.

• Experience with code versioning tools (git / perforce) build tools (Makefiles / SConscript / Python), and debuggers like JTAG.

• Understanding of a broad range of topics Linux Kernel, Android Frameworks, Secure software development etc.

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