Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

As a Linux Kernel Developer, you are responsible for working within a distributed team of fellow engineers that are developing solutions for our next generation custom CPUs.  You will collaborate both internally, and externally with upstream communities (including the Linux kernel, boot firmware and low-level libraries), as well as with appropriate standards bodies.  You will have an opportunity to engage broadly with our hardware and software development teams to ensure leading performance, efficiency and security for our custom CPUs both pre and post-silicon.  The role includes ensuring that existing software performs well on our CPUs and new architectural features are enabled in open source software.

Role and Responsibilities

• Assist in the definition of future high performance SoCs and platforms
• Lead the creation of optimizations and drivers for high performance platforms, focused on ensuring that existing Operating Systems run well, while identifying strong opportunity for enhancements that can improve performance on our hardware
• Collaborating with the performance team to understand areas of hardware optimization

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

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

What we would like to see

• Strong grasp of Computer Architecture concepts, including high performance architectures, weak memory models, server platforms and the hardware/software interface
• Self-starter who takes initiative and engages well with upstream communities
• Proficient in C, assembly language, and build systems
• Strong experience of systems programming in Python or similar languages
• Good understanding of distributed revision control systems and modern software development best practices
• Development of software virtual platforms, low-level boot firmware and debug tools

Preferred qualifications

• 10 years+ of experience in building software stacks for high performance systems
• Experience in working “upstream first” with the Linux kernel community
• Experience in maintaining server class platform support upstream
• Strong grasp of Computer Architecture concepts leveraged by modern high performance server-class platforms, knowledge of performance tradeoffs
• Deep expertise in UEFI, ACPI, PCIe, and other related server specs

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