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The team supports all aspects of embedded software including hardware and software architecture, feature bring-up, platform integration, software customization, system validation, and complex debugging efforts that are critical to product launch.\nThis is a Staff-level Software Applications Engineering position focused on BSP and HLOS Stability for Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive platforms. The primary mission of this role is to own, triage, debug, and resolve system stability issues across IVI, ADAS, and FLEX segments for global automotive customers. The role spans multiple OS environments including QNX (HQX) and HGY (Hypervisor Gunyah with Linux/Android GVM), covering both QNX PVM and multi-OS virtualized stacks.\nThe successful candidate will serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for platform stability, driving cross-functional collaboration between the Customer Engineering team, Dev/Platform SW teams, and OEM/Tier-1 customers. As a Staff Engineer, this individual will also provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, define debug methodologies, and contribute to the continuous improvement of stability tools and automation frameworks.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nSystem Stability - Debugging & Resolution\nLead triage and root-cause analysis of system stability issues (crashes, hangs, watchdog resets, panics, SOC resets) across QNX (HQX) and HGY (Gunyah) platforms for automotive customers.\nDebug kernel crashes, process crashes, resource-manager failures, and OS-level hangs on QNX IVI, ADAS, and FLEX variants.\nAnalyze full ramdumps, minidumps, and guest-dumps (QNX/Android/Linux GVM) using Crashscope, QXDM, QDSS traces, and other Qualcomm diagnostic toolchains.\nIdentify, isolate, and drive resolution of stability regressions across chipset generations (Gen3, Gen4, Gen4.5, Gen5) on both HQX and HGY stacks.\nOwn stability-related Change Requests (CRs) end-to-end - from initial triage through root-cause analysis, patch validation, and integration into customer branches.\nCollaborate with Dev/PLT teams to diagnose Linux kernel panics, Android GVM crashes, and Gunyah hypervisor-level faults within the HGY multi-OS virtualized stack.\nInvestigate stability failures related to HLOS system services, BSP drivers, inter-VM communication (GLINK, IPCC, SMP2P), and framework-level issues.\nDrive MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) improvements for customer SPs targeting ADAS/IVI production SOP milestones.\nCustomer Engagement & Technical Support\nServe as the primary technical point of contact for stability-related issues from automotive OEM and Tier-1 customers across regions.\nAnalyze and triage stability CRs submitted via customer issue tracking systems; provide timely, technically accurate responses and resolution paths.\nSupport Automotive RFI (AutoRFI) assessments for stability-related NRE scoping, communicating technical complexity and resource requirements.\nEngage with customers during bring-up, pre-CS, and post-CS phases to proactively identify and mitigate stability risks.\nProvide on-site customer support as required during critical program milestones.\nCollaborate with NA, EU, and India CE teams to ensure 24/7 global follow-the-sun stability support.\nStability Testing, Tools & Automation\nDrive development and validation of stability test automation frameworks for HGY and QNX platforms (e.g., Axiom-based stability pools, CI/CD integration).\nEnable and validate security hardening passes that impact stability: Syzcaller, KASAN, UBSAN, KTSAN, CFI, PTRAUTH on HGY Linux-based stacks.\nDevelop and maintain automated ramdump/minidump parsers and triage tools to reduce mean time to diagnosis.\nPartner with APT (Automated Platform Test) teams to define test cases targeting top stability hitters across program milestones.\nCreate and maintain debug guides, triage runbooks, and reusable diagnostic artifacts for stability issues across QNX and HGY platforms.\nTrack and analyze stability trends across program stages (Bringup → ES → L0-L4 → FC → CS) and communicate risk to program and customer teams.\nTechnical Leadership & Mentorship\nServe as the stability SME for the BDC CE BSP team, providing architectural guidance on platform stability design and debugging strategy.\nLead cross-functional stability reviews with Dev, APT, PDT, and CE teams; drive root-cause analysis (RCA) delivery to enable new test case generation.\nMentor junior and mid-level engineers on system stability concepts, QNX/HGY platform architecture, debugging methodology, and customer engagement.\nInfluence feature design and architecture decisions to proactively prevent system instability in future Snapdragon Automotive SPs.\nScale technical knowledge through reusable documentation, training materials, and knowledge-base contributions (e.g., Confluence, CE KnowledgeBase).\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\nEducation & Experience\nOne of the following:\nB.E. / B.Tech in Engineering, Computer Science, Electronics, or related field with 8+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Embedded Systems, or related experience.\nM.Tech / M.S. in relevant field with 6+ years of experience.\nPh.D. in relevant field with 4+ years of experience.\nRequired Technical Skills\n3+ years of hands-on experience debugging system stability issues on embedded platforms (crashes, panics, watchdog resets, kernel oops).\n3+ years of experience with C, C++, Python, or similar languages in an embedded/real-time environment.\nStrong knowledge of QNX OS architecture: process management, IPC, resource managers, POSIX interfaces, and real-time scheduling.\nExperience debugging QNX-based systems using ramdump parsers (QXDM Crashscope), QDSS traces, and guestdump analysis.\nHands-on experience with QNX HQX platform: BSP drivers, power management, framework services, and OS-level debugging.\nExperience with Linux kernel debugging (kernel panic, KASAN, UBSAN, ftrace, perf) on automotive or embedded platforms.\nUnderstanding of multi-OS hypervisor stacks: VM communication (GLINK, IPCC), hypervisor fault isolation, guest OS crash analysis.\nExperience with automotive embedded debugging tools: QDSS, QFIL, QXDM, Axiom, Crashscope, and PCAT.\n3+ years of customer-facing technical support experience.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to document RCAs and communicate technical findings to cross-functional teams.\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\nStaff-level experience owning platform stability for production automotive programs (IVI / ADAS / FLEX) from bringup through SOP.\nDeep expertise in HGY (Gunyah Hypervisor) platform stability: Linux PVM, Android GVM, and multi-OS virtual stack crash analysis.\nExperience with QNX stability areas: SSR (Subsystem Restart), PIL (Peripheral Image Loader), SMMU faults, memory corruption, ECC errors, and HAB (Hypervisor Access Bridge) failures.\nExperience triaging and resolving issues across HLOS and non-HLOS boundary: GLINK/IPCC communication failures, shared memory corruption, VMM/VDEV faults.\nFamiliarity with Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive chipsets: SA8255P, SA8775P, SA8650P, SA8295P across Gen3 / Gen4 / Gen4.5 / Gen5.\nExperience with security-related stability testing: Syzcaller fuzzing, KASAN, UBSAN, KTSAN, CFI, and PTRAUTH on Linux-based platforms.\nExperience working with Axiom automation infrastructure for automotive stability testing and CI/CD integration.\nFamiliarity with ASPICE process compliance, ASIL functional safety considerations, and automotive program delivery cycles.\nProven experience collaborating with global automotive OEM/Tier-1 customers (e.g., Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Bosch, LGE, Ford, Harman, Rivian) on stability escalations.\nExperience with AutoRFI processes, NRE scoping, and CDEV (Chipset Development) activities within CE programs.\nKnowledge of MTBF analysis, stability dashboards (Tempus/Tableau), and workload-based stability trend analysis.\nMinimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.OR\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.\nOR\nPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.\n2+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.\n• 1+ year of experience with debugging techniques.\nApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. 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