SSG (Security / Cryptography Trustzone) Engineer, Senior Staff
Qualcomm
Hyderabad, Telangāna, Indiaonsitestafffull timeToday
Qualcomm
Company:
Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary:
Job Overview
Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.
We are looking for a passionate and skilled software professionals to provide software engineering solutions for development projects in the Security systems team. In this position, you will work with a team of multi-disciplined professionals to develop and optimize systems, tools and methods for QTI security solutions. The position will require you to work on security software development that needs close interactions with internal teams and potentially with external customers as well.
You will be contributing on various Security related technologies across Mobile platform Security, Cryptography, Trusted Execution environments, Access control mechanisms, vulneraility detection etc. You will work across multiple processors, Embedded software platforms, and operating systems. Your work will contribute towards making mobile platforms safe and secure to use and thus creating a positive impact on end user of the handset.
Responsibilities
• Responsible for leading team in timely, high-quality execution on larger, less-defined, moderately complex tasks.
• Planning work, including splitting into sub-tasks, clarifying requirements, and managing dependencies.
• Lead teams developing Security software in C for embedded platforms on ARM / RISCV processos.
• Handle increased complexity and ambiguity of new, exploratory, multi-domain, or multi-disciplinary tasks.
• Strong technical expertise and ownership for the modules owned with limited direction and oversight.
• Analyze product requirements, identify impacted areas, derive requirements, and produce suitable designs.
• Independently represent the team to internal and external stake holders / partners on their area of responsibility.
• Anticipate challenges. Excel at dealing with ambiguity, unforeseen setbacks, multi-tasking and changing priorities.
• Collaborate within and cross functional teams as required to ensure quality work products are delivered.
• Keep oneself up-to-date with industry trends and technology developments around the related areas of work.
• Responsible and accountable for tineliness and quality of own deliverables and work products and that of the team.
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's / Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Electronics or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of exp. in Software development preferably in Embedded and programming in C / Assembly.
• Strong understanding of Embedded hardware, Computer Architecture and Operating System concepts.
• Good understanding of OS concepts such as tasks, signals, timers, priorities, deadlocks, stacks, etc.
• Understanding of RTOS fundamentals like multi-threading, interrupt management, cache/memory management etc.
• Experience with code versioning tools (git / perforce) build tools (Makefiles/SCons), and debuggers like JTAG.
• Experience in leading and driving software development activities independently and working with multiple teams.
• Experience in managing software projects across all phases like Requirement analysis, Design and validations.
• Self-sufficient and capable of operating the team effectively under tight deadlines without close supervision
• Good understanding of Software Security Concepts, Public Key Cryptography, ARM Trustzone, VIrtualization etc.
• Good communication skills & ability to work with engineers, partners & customers across cultures / geographical sites
• Good expertise and experience on product security for embedded devices, which may include a subset of the following skillsets:• Symmetric & Assymmetric Cryptography,• Device integrity & Authentication,• Secure communications, • Trusted execution environment, • Protected virtualization • Platform isolation techniques, • Embedded/real time OS security,• Vulnerability detection methods, • Exploit mitigation techniques,• Hardware access control,• Secure provisioning and debug,• Key management and applied cryptography
Desirable Qualifications
• Understanding of a broad range of topics viz. Security systems, Cryptography, Linux Kernel, Android Framweworks etc.
• Good understanding of and experience on embedded processor architectures like ARMv8/9 or RISC-V processors.
• Prior exposure to / experience in working with Qualcomm Snapdragon platfroms or similar System on Chip architecture.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Keywords
Embedded, ARM, RISC V, Debuggers, JTAG, Device Drivers, BSP, Operating System, Android, Linux, Hypervisor, Programming, C/C++, Security, Cryptography, Trusted Computing, ATF, OPTEE, Trusty-TEE, Problem Solving, Debugging.
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