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About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
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As a RISC-V Software Engineer, you will join the engineering team to lead the design and development of security, virtualization, confidential compute, and trusted execution environment features for next-generation Qualcomm SoCs. You will be responsible for defining architecture, enabling hardware features, and driving upstream contributions to OpenSBI, KVM, and the Linux kernel while ensuring compliance with RISC-V hypervisor extensions, SBI, RPMI, CoVE, and supervisor domains. The role involves collaborating with hardware teams to debug interactions on silicon and emulation platforms and integrating compliance test suites. You will utilize programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python, alongside tools like ftrace, perf, kgdb, crash, and Git. This position focuses on solving complex technical challenges at the intersection of hardware and software within the RISC-V architecture ecosystem to ensure robust system security and functionality.
C++
RISC-V
x86
ARM
Python
Linux
GDB
RTL Co-simulation
Hardware Verification
Computer Architecture
Embedded Systems
Compilers
ELF Binaries
QEMU
Spike
gem5
Linux Kernel
KVM
ARMv8
ARMv9
C
C++
Python
QEMU
JTAG
Git
IOMMU
Device Drivers
FPGA
DVFS
Embedded Systems
Security Assessment
System Architecture
Memory Management
open-source