RISC-V Software Engineer

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Engineering Group, Engineering Group >
Software Engineering

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Principal Engineer to lead the design and development of security, virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution environment (TEE) features in our next-generation Qualcomm SoCs. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who thrives at the intersection of hardware and software and is passionate about RISC-V architecture.

You will play a critical role in defining the architecture, enabling new hardware features, and ensuring compliance with industry standards such as RISC-V hypervisor extension, RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI), RISC-V Platform Management Interface (RPMI), RISC-V Confidential Compute (CoVE), and RISC-V supervisor domains.

• Contribute to architecture and development of security, virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution features.
• Drive upstream contributions to the OpenSBI, KVM and Linux kernel, ensuring long-term maintainability and community alignment.
• Collaborate with hardware and platform teams to enable security, virtualization confidential compute, and trusted execution features.
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to enable software stack on silicon and emulation platforms, debug hardware-software interactions, and ensure seamless integration.
• Guide the integration of compliance test suites for confidential compute and trusted execution features.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 6+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

• 18+ years of experience in Linux KVM or Linux kernel or TEE development.
• Good understanding in virtualization, confidential compute and trusted execution environments.
• Strong debugging skills using tools like ftrace, perf, kgdb, crash, kernel logs and hardware debuggers.
• Good experience with Git, Git Hub or Git Lab.

• Exposure to the RISC‑V architecture.
• Good understanding of ARM virtualization extensions or ARM Trustzone or ARM CCA or RISC‑V hypervisor extensions or RISC‑V CoVE.
• Proven experience in up streaming patches and working with the Linux KVM or Linux kernel community.
• Proven experience in working with Industry standard groups and proposing specification changes.
• Platform or SoC bring-up on silicon, emulation, and simulation platforms.
• Contributions or maintainer-ship in any open-source project.
• Familiarity with Docker, CI/CD pipelines.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 4+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

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