RISC-V Software Engineer

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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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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