RISC-V Software Engineer

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Principal RISC-V Software Engineer to lead security, virtualization, confidential computing, and trusted execution environment features for next-generation Qualcomm SoCs. The role focuses on architecture, software development, upstream contributions to OpenSBI, KVM, and the Linux kernel, hardware-software integration, and compliance testing.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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, GitHub or GitLab
• 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
• 4+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc
• 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 upstreaming 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