Engineer, Senior ; Zephyr OSTT

Overview

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.
• 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 languages 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
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience
• 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)

• Candidates with experience working in any of the following areas will have an advantage.
• 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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