Engineer, Senior ; Zephyr OSTT

Company:
Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. Job Area:
Engineering Group >
Software Engineering

Qualcomm is looking for Zephyr RTOS developers to join a new team that will be driving Qualcomm’s open-source Zephyr software for either in-person or remote roles.

We seek strategic thinkers with a deep technical understanding of Zephyr and related open-source projects who have made significant contributions to the upstream project. Ideal candidates have technical leadership roles in the upstream community, such as being maintainers, collaborators, or release managers. They will also be excited by the opportunity to bring about meaningful organizational change in Qualcomm’s open-source strategy and execution.

Candidates with excellent communication skills will be given greater consideration.

As Senior Staff engineer, you will report to the Principal Engineer managing the Zephyr team on Qualcomm’s Open-Source Tech Team (OSTT). You will be a technical leader and contributor to a new upstream-focused, cross-platform, developer-first, unified, open-source, Zephyr-based firmware development platform for Qualcomm SoCs. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on our business and contribute to our company's growth.

• Help build and maintain a scalable platform that allows Qualcomm to deliver common core software into a public shared mainline for Zephyr-based software development
• Maintain upstream Zephyr RTOS target support for Qualcomm platforms
• Work with OSS & upstream initiatives within the Qualcomm Central Software Engineering (CSE) team to improve general software quality
• Represent the company at industry events and conferences
• Mentor and build open-source expertise within Qualcomm

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

• Experience in open-source software development in the Zephyr Project community
• Expertise in a low-level language like C, C++, or Assembly and a high-level language such as Python, Go, or Rust
• Strong understanding of embedded software and the Zephyr Project software ecosystem
• Ability to work cross-functionally with product and engineering teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Based in the Americas (North or South) or EU in a country with an existing Qualcomm legal presence
• Willingness to travel globally as needed (likely several times per year)

• Generalists: used to fighting fires, doing deep surgery on legacy code bases, reviewing code
• CI and test infrastructure, in particular Git Hub Actions and automated hardware validation labs
• Wi‑Fi and/or networking
• Bluetooth
• Low‑level architecture support (e.g. RISC‑V, Arm)
• The Zephyr build system and hardware model v2
• Zephyr drivers for common on‑chip peripherals (SPI, I2C, watchdogs, etc.)
• Security (secure boot, MCUboot, mbed
  
  TLS, and other core platform security features and related projects)
• Power management

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The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation  also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales‑incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).

In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and r recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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