Staff Engineer, Device Drivers (ONSITE - Boulder, CO)

Qualcomm•Boulder, CO

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Qualcomm CR&D is looking for a software engineer for Linux device driver for Machine Learning use cases. The development target is Qualcomm high-performance inference accelerator AI 100 and related products. The candidate will help work on developing code for Linux device drivers and help with upstreaming the code. Familiarity with development of functional simulation of SoC systems included bus subsystems, DMA, PCIe and peripherals, synchronization mechanisms such as semaphores as well as low speed peripherals will be beneficial.

Requirements

Experience with Linux kernel driver development, kernel modules, HWMon, sysfs and debugging techniques
PCIe virtualization, SRIOV
Experience with embedded development in C.
Knowledge of RTOS, SoC architecture (core, cache, memory, bus architecture, IOs, etc.) and common hardware blocks
Experience with Source Code and Configuration management tools, git knowledge is required
Willingness to work in a structured software development environment with ability to work on low-level implementation (code & test)
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's 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.
Experience with Linux user-space development, API development and multi-threaded processing.
Experience with development in C/C++.
Experience with development in Python.
Knowledge of RTOS, SoC architecture (core, cache, memory, bus architecture, IOs, etc.) and common hardware blocks
Experience with Source Code and Configuration management tools
Experience evangelizing innovative and new software architectural designs.
Good communication skills and ability to negotiate in a co-operative way.
5+ years of relevant experience

Nice To Haves

4+ years of relevant experience
Experience with Linux kernel PCIe stack.
Familiar with high speed interfaces such as PCIe and LPDDR
Familiar with implementing systems with high reliability expectations such as use of ECC, PCI AER fields.
Experience working with and familiarity with important SOC building blocks like interrupt controller & timers
Experience with kernel subsystems relevant to isolation and security.
Strong understanding of DMA, IOMMU, and device assignment in virtualized/isolated contexts.
Proficiency with virtualization: KVM and guest/host split drivers
Experience with CUDA, NCCL, Vulkan
Experience with frameworks like IREE
Understanding of PT 2.0 framework
Familiar with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe and LPDDR