Senior Lead/Senior Engineer - Static Analysis & Agentic AI
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 11, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 11, 2026. Qualcomm scores C on the Alion truth index.
Company:
Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Security EngineeringGeneral Summary:
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. Qualcomm Security Engineers perform security assessments, develop company products, and collaborate across functions to ensure performance metrics and product requirements are met.
We are looking for a Senior Lead/Senior Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for static-analysis engineering across large Linux, Android, embedded, and kernel C/C++ software platforms.
The role combines deep expertise in program analysis, build/toolchain architecture, static-analysis platforms, and Agentic AI with technical leadership and cross-team execution.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Security Engineering or related work experience.OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Security Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Security Engineering or related work experience.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or M.Tech/MS in a related discipline or PhD.
- 3-7 years of relevant experience in static analysis, compilers, program analysis, systems software, software security, or developer infrastructure.
- Advanced programming skills in C/C++ and Python.
- Demonstrated experience designing or scaling static-analysis solutions.
- Hands-on experience building AI/LLM-enabled or Agentic AI solutions.
- Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and scale static-analysis solutions across Linux, Android, embedded, and kernel software.
- Lead advanced program analysis, checker/model development, TP/FP analysis, and remediation strategies.
- Design reusable integration across complex build systems, toolchains, product variants, and CI/CD.
- Architect Agentic AI workflows for scan health, triage, root-cause analysis, remediation, patch generation, and validation.
- Define standards for analysis quality, coverage, accuracy, AI evaluation, guardrails, and observability.
- Lead technical designs, mentor engineers, and collaborate across software, build, compiler, security, DevOps, and AI teams.
Required Skills
- Advanced C/C++ and Python development, debugging, and system-software expertise.
- Strong understanding of AST/IR, control/data flow, interprocedural analysis, taint analysis, symbolic execution, alias/points-to, and object-lifetime analysis.
- Strong experience with static-analysis platforms such as Klocwork, Coverity, Parasoft, CodeQL, Clang/LLVM, or equivalent.
- Deep understanding of GCC/Clang, compilers, linkers, toolchains, cross-compilation, and build capture.
- Strong experience with GNU Make/Kbuild/Kconfig and/or Android Soong/Ninja, plus familiarity with CMake, Bazel, Yocto/BitBake, Buildroot, or similar systems.
- Hands-on expertise developing Agentic AI systems, including tool integration, stateful workflows, orchestration, guardrails, evaluation, and observability.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and ability to scale engineering solutions across multiple projects.
Preferred Skills
- Experience developing Clang/LLVM checkers, CodeQL queries, custom analysis rules, or compiler tooling.
- Experience with Linux kernel, firmware, BSP, device drivers, hypervisors, or embedded platforms.
- Knowledge of CWE, CERT C/C++, MISRA C/C++, AUTOSAR C++, ISO 26262, or ISO/SAE 21434.
- Experience with fuzzing, sanitizers, binary/runtime analysis, RAG, code search, MCP, and multi-agent orchestration.
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