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Engineer, Staff - Linux Kernel

📍 Location
hyderabad city taluka
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
May 30, 2026

About the Role

Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Staff Engineer to lead and deliver power and performance optimizations on our compute chipsets using upstream Linux. This role is ideal for a fully hands‑on technical leader with compute experience and who is passionate about delivering measurable performance and power improvements on production systems using upstream Linux. Work involves intersection of Hardware, Kernel, and Upstream Linux to characterize, debug, and optimize system and use‑case performance under power and thermal constraints.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive performance optimization for Compute devices, and mentor a small team to deliver best‑in‑class system performance
  • Boot optimizations to meet product demands of Compute devices, including boot‑time reduction, robus...

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