System Software Engineer, Staff (Security)

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm Cloud BU is seeking an experienced System Software Engineer ( Security) to develop secure computing environments for Edge and Data Center use cases, targeting Qualcomm’s next generation high-performance inference accelerator. This role focuses on expanding the Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) on server platforms and enabling our hardware-assisted inference accelerator as a trusted device. You will design and integrate solutions to protect sensitive workloads in TDISP and SR-IOV-compliant Trusted VMs across multi-tenant deployments.

Candidate should have a background in cloud computing or on-prem server security systems , with experience in confidential computing, virtualization, and secure execution environments. Familiarity with platforms such as Intel TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, ARM CCA or AWS Nitro Enclaves is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Collaborate with hardware, firmware, host software and application teams to deliver end-to-end Confidential Compute solutions.
  • Integrate and validate TDISP-compliant trusted device assignment and lifecycle management for secure inference acceleration.
  • Integrate and validate SR-IOV-based secure execution environment for PCIe devices, supporting isolation, attestation, and multi-tenant deployments.
  • Extend open-source OS/hypervisors (e.g., Linux, QEMU, KVM) to support confidential workload security extensions and validate solutions across various virtualization technologies and TEEs.
  • Work with server security technologies such as TPM, secure provisioning, firmware integrity, and platform-level attestation.
  • Contribute to threat modeling, risk assessments, and compliance alignment with industry standards TDISP, OCP, TCG, and Confidential Computing Consortium.
  • Participate in system bring-up, debugging, and performance tuning across heterogeneous compute environments.

Required Qualifications:

• • 3+ years of experience in embedded systems, Linux kernel development , and linux/server security .
  • Experience of cryptographic primitives and best practices, including key management and certificates
  • Knowledge of threat modeling, network/cloud security, and Linux container/VM security.
  • Designs and manages virtualized environments using platforms like VMware, KVM, Hyper-V.
  • Ability on kernel level or hardware-firmware level debugging using tools like JTAG, logic analyzers, and protocol analyzers.
  • Strong analytical skills and integration capabilities. A passion for solving challenging, low-level problem.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• • experience with cloud infrastructure or server systems engineering, within the security or virtualization domains.
  • Expertise in ARM architecture and/or RISC-V architecture.
  • Knowledge of PCIe architecture, including DMA, MMIO, mailbox and endpoint configuration.
  • Experience with server security technologies such as cryptographic protocols, secure boot, attestation, TPM.
  • Experience designing or integrating secure GPU acceleration within enclave-based architectures.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :

$134,800.00 - $202,200.00

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