Engineer, Senior - QuRT Kernel
Qualcomm
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Posted on May 1, 2025
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
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
Job description:
Design, develop, test and support real-time operating system (RTOS) features for Qualcomm Hexagon Processors. As a Core Platform Kernel software engineer, you will be part of a team of software engineers who are passionate about kernel level programming with keen attention to write high performance code for resource-constrained processors. The Qualcomm Real Time Operating System (QuRT) is the OS that powers Qualcomm Hexagon Processors. We are continually enhancing the OS to support new Hexagon processor features, enhance power savings features, enhance security, creating Safety profile. and provide new OS functionality to meet the demands of our customers
Skills/experience
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
3074201
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 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Job description:
Design, develop, test and support real-time operating system (RTOS) features for Qualcomm Hexagon Processors. As a Core Platform Kernel software engineer, you will be part of a team of software engineers who are passionate about kernel level programming with keen attention to write high performance code for resource-constrained processors. The Qualcomm Real Time Operating System (QuRT) is the OS that powers Qualcomm Hexagon Processors. We are continually enhancing the OS to support new Hexagon processor features, enhance power savings features, enhance security, creating Safety profile. and provide new OS functionality to meet the demands of our customers
Skills/experience
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- 3-5 years of Software Engineering or related work experience; Strong analytical, mathematical and debugging skills
- 3-5 years’ experience with Programming Language such as C, Python; pointers, data structures (e.g. linked list, trees, sorting)
- 3+ years’ experience working with Assembly language.
- 3+ years’ experience working on software for DSP or CPU processors; Hardware and architectural knowledge / experience (Processor Architecture, Cache, interrupts, Memory barriers, Strong ordering, etc.)
- 3+ years’ experience using Emulator, simulator environment, LLDB/JTAG debuggers / profilers
- 3+ years’ experience working on real time operating systems for embedded systems; Thorough RTOS knowledge and experience (Mutex, spinlocks, Queues, Signaling, Events, Deferred function calls & Callbacks, Multi-thread & Multi-process environments, Concurrency Scenarios, etc.)
- Develop code to run under an RTOS, and how to use semaphores, mutexes, queues, IPC.
- Develop and debug code with stacks, queues, linked-lists, and other common data structures.
- DSP RTOS development, LLDB/Debugger development, Safe RTOS development
- Works under supervision.
- Decision-making may affect work beyond immediate work group.
- Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey information. May require basic negotiation, influence, tact, etc.
- Tasks do not have defined steps; planning, problem-solving, and prioritization must occur to complete the tasks effectively.
Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.
To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.
If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.
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