Staff, Engineer - RISC-V Software

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.