Staff, Engineer - RISC-V Software

Job description

Company Qualcomm India Private Limited Job Area Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering **General Summary** We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Staff Engineer for the design and development of performance monitoring and debug features in our next-generation Qualcomm SoCs. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who thrives at the intersection of hardware and software and is passionate about RISC-V architecture. You will play a critical role in defining the architecture, enabling new hardware features, and ensuring compliance with industry standards such as RISC-V debug, RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI), RISC-V control transfer records, and other related RISC-V specifications. **Key Responsibilities** - Contribute to architecture and software development of debug and performance monitoring features for RISC-V. - Drive upstream contributions to the OpenSBI and Linux kernel, ensuring long-term maintainability and community alignment. - 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 RISC-V specifications. **Minimum Qualifications:** Bachelors degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Masters degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc. **Required Qualifications** - 10+ years of experience in low-level system programming. - Good understanding in performance monitoring and hardware debug features in any of the major architectures (such as x86, ARM or RISC-V). - Strong debugging skills using tools like ftrace, perf, kgdb, crash, kernel logs and hardware debuggers. - Good experience with Git, GitHub or GitLab. **Nice to have Qualifications** - Exposure to the RISC-V architecture. - Good understanding of Linux perf subsystem, Linux ptrace subsystem, and Linux tracing support. - Proven experience in upstreaming patches and working with the Linux kernel community. - Proven experience in working with Industry standard groupsand 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.