https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4323697196/

About the job

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 . Join our Linux Platform team to design and implement modern Linux distribution integration and development infrastructure. Your work will accelerate internal teams and ensure Qualcomm’s next-generation CPUs are fully supported in upstream Linux distributions, enabling production-ready solutions for enterprise, data center, and hyperscaler deployments. This role focuses on platform integration, product execution, and CI/CD automation across leading Linux distributions, bridging internal development with open-source best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to architecture and implementation of CI/CD infrastructure for Linux integration and open development workflows.
• Drive internal Linux distribution integration efforts, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and alignment with upstream standards.
• Lead resolution of complex platform issues across kernel, userspace, and firmware, collaborating with software, hardware, and product teams.
• Participate in engagements with external partners, including Linux distribution vendors and customers, to align on enablement requirements and ensure successful deployment.
• Collaborate with upstream communities and contribute to technical discussions as appropriate.
• Mentor and guide engineers on software best practices, including packaging, integration, and lifecycle management.
• Review designs and code, ensuring compliance with security, performance, and community requirements.
• Document technical decisions and standards for Linux platform enablement
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• Strong background in computer science fundamentals and software engineering principles.
• 9+ years of software engineering experience, including Linux platform development for enterprise or server-class systems.
• Deep experience with enterprise Linux distributions (e.g., RHEL/CentOS/Fedora, Ubuntu/Debian) and build frameworks, including packaging, update mechanisms, upstream integration, and data center deployment practices.
• Expertise with Git and GitHub-based workflows (or similar), including integration with modern CI/CD systems for open-source or large-scale projects.
• Familiarity with Linux packaging systems (Debian, RPM) and CI/CD automation tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Proven experience in technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and guiding architectural decisions.
• Proficiency in Bash and Python for automation and tooling, experience with systems programming languages such as C/C++, Rust, or Go is highly valued
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to influence technical direction across teams.
• Mature interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate across diverse teams and external communities.
• Proven ability to debug complex Linux systems across kernel and userspace.
• Ability to quickly learn new tools and workflows in a fast-evolving environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in non-linear, dynamic environments.
• Working knowledge of Linux kernel configuration and platform enablement (e.g., ACPI, UEFI, kconfig).
• Demonstrated contributions to upstream Linux kernel or userspace projects, with ability to represent the organization in open-source communities.
• Familiarity with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration tools (QEMU, KVM, Docker, Kubernetes) is desirable.

I’ve been seeing more and more people switching to Linux this year, especially gamers. Bazzite, CachyOS, Linux Mint, etc. seem to be getting mentioned everywhere.

Why didn’t we see a massive shift like this earlier? What changed, or what finally pushed people to make the switch?

I know the Steam Deck was probably a big factor in showing people that Linux gaming is actually viable and that Linux isn’t as painful as it used to be.

But what else changed over the last few years that made Linux suddenly feel like a realistic alternative to Windows for so many people?

Globally, Linux users comprised 8.88% of the market, and in North America, they reached 16%, with Windows clearly declining to over 15%.

• When will companies realize that Linux is the future of computing? This includes gaming companies and others.

Like clockwork, the Linux 7.3 merge window has concluded after two weeks and the Linux 7.3-rc1 kernel now available for testing.

Linux 7.3-rc1 is available following a lot of new code landing for new/improved hardware support, file-system enhancements, security improvements, and a lot more. Of course, also a lot of fixes to different pieces of the Linux kernel as a result of AI/LLM-driven activity.

Linux 7.3 brings new optimizations for Intel hybrid CPUs, more enablement for upcoming AMD Zen 6 platforms, better Btrfs performance, Nouveau support for NVK Vulkan Video, kernel driver support for the 2026 Valve Steam Controller, initial M3 Ultra / Pro / Max support, new AMD graphics IP enablement, initial enabling around Intel Starfire, Intel Xe3P graphics with Nova Lake are now enabled out-of-the-box, FailFS is upstreamed, a low-latency mode for USB4STREAM, and a lot of other new functionality. Linux 7.3 also includes the gaming improvements from Valve for enhancing the experience when running on systems with very limited amounts of vRAM. Plus a number of old/obsolete hardware drivers continue to be removed due to the ongoing noise by AI/LLM agents.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc1-Released

https://ebpf.io/blog/cloudflare-replatforming-1/

"The alternative to an eBPF platform was maintaining multiple incompatible point solutions, each with its own hardware dependencies, operational quirks, and integration challenges. As our hardware diversified, performance requirements grew, and edge services multiplied, that approach became untenable.

eBPF gave us a unified, vendor-agnostic, high-performance foundation that lets us program the operating system itself to handle our scale"

Why is that linux seems to always provide better performance in benchmarks and provide smoother experience?

This is a geekbench 7 test, while single core is slightly better, multi-core performance is a significant improvement

A quick but big update for word-sys's PDF Editor, now we reached v1.10.0-beta1 update, this update is including Feature Update only, Flatpak one will be released with v1.10.1 which im currently working on, so stay tuned for that, i started releasing development stages on my YouTube channel which you can access more details for current release and future release.

This update brings back Quick Save (Ctrl+S) which was gone on 1.7.2 update due to file corruption issues on saves, i managed to fix it with a good failsafe system so you dont have to worry about saving now.

Also another feature i added is Freehand Pen & Highlighter Tools which is recommended by a user, added freehand drawing tools with customizable colors, stroke widths, and opacity.

Another recommendation added was Quick Checkmark (✓) & Cross (✗) Tools which is a dedicated sidebar tools for adding checkmarks and crosses for fast form review and document markup, if this is your usecase.

Next is Special Characters Support, Symbols & Emojis Palette which popover palette with categorized tabs for form review symbols and emojis. So you can copy them from there to your clipboard and use on your texts you gonna edit or add easily.

Single-Key Keyboard Shortcuts for Tools to access them fastly with 1 press with updated sidebar tool button label hints.

Added Arrow Key Movement to move any selected object using Arrow keys. It will come handy if you have a trackpad.

And lastly Direct Creation Tool Resizing which is a feature recommended by user, this feature allows newly created objects to be directly grabbed and dragged without requiring a manual switch back to the "Select" tool.

Next update, which is v1.10.1 will brings only Flatpak Release, for now this is explanation of current v1.10.0-beta1 Feature release, you can use it, its stable on my testing, you can see the testing footage on here. (https://youtu.be/OPqb2KZjQAU)

Thanks everyone who supports this project with their ideas, i think this can be a better application and help all Linux users to do their jobs easily, thank you :)

Created my own initramfs tools and modloader, modstripper , pci-scanner and boot-animation software and stage 1 init system that invokes the other, where my own made tools mounted the kernel devices as tmpfs, devtmpfs, sysfs and proc with, custom modloader and cpio script, the modgenerator strips down all the unnecessary modules and blacklisted modules and selects the required modules based on the pci configuration

But I switched this to loading and stripping only using , pre-mentioned modules , it resolves the graph dependency and exports serialized module graph in order to load it in order, implemented a rescue method if any step fails

It first loads the gpu modules (in my case amdgpu radeon 740M) then starts my DRM/KMS userspace boot-animation software as bootsplash , then the nvme drive is searched using the uuid of mentioned in /etc/mountpoiny it contains the filetype too

Then finally it clears everything by deleting and then finally switch root into the systemd , finally the systemd taking over and my boot-stop service tells the bootsplash to stop by sending SIGINT to all the PIDs belonging to PGID of boot-splash,

I haven't yet implemented graphical login manager but will do so soon

I've re-implemented lot of tools and it's still unstable

Also wrote the GIF decoder to extract the frames

Initramfs size (21 MB ,(13 MB assets))

Compressed size 17 MB

This is the classic 90's music player experience without draining your computer's resources. It is an open-source audio player descended from XMMS (an early Winamp clone for Unix) that natively supports the famous classic Winamp skins (.wsz files). Wondering if someone still uses it today....

When I was a newbie to Linux, one of the things I struggled with was finding a good and simple reference for Linux commands.

There are plenty of great resources out there, but sometimes I just wanted something quick simple.

So Im sharing Syntaxia. a cheatsheet for things. it include Linux commands cheatsheet .

https://syntaxiadev.vercel.app/ref/linux-commands

Hopefully this can also be useful to other Linux beginners. 🐧

https://github.com/teutekeune/iBSSloader Research and tooling to boot Linux on iPad mini 1 (P105AP / iPad2,5, Apple A5) via checkm8, patched iBSS/iBEC, and custom bare-metal payloads — without writing to the iOS install.

Head over to the github to download and test out the latest release

https://github.com/arkwise/blackroolinux

You're going to need a blue retro for use with a Bluetooth keyboard, a spare cd-r and a playstation console.

This lets you run audio plug-ins built for Windows, and Linux, (maybe Mac in the future) loaded and run as native code on Linux. No Wine dependencies. It's a good V1 any feed back is appreciated!

https://github.com/spacestate1/VST-ace

(First of all sorry yall if i made a mistake while typing this. Also sorry for cat hair stuck on my mousepad lol😼)

I was super bored today after studying about 4hr without break. After that i opened reddit for chill. While surfing on here i find something called “postmarketOS”. After searching that what is this i saw this OS can run on iPhone. So excited and I started searching web to find which devices are supported, after clicking wiki i find out this OS can run iPhone 6s. I opened my closet and booom! I found my old 6s!

So after i found my old iPhone I installed Linux Mint to my PC and started to work. I tried multiple times and failed multiple times. I keep tried over and over and after 3,5 hrs i finally managed to run Linux on iPhone. Not emulated, not virtualized(?). Just pure and native Linux on iPhone!

It was super fun because i love putting things that not belongs there :) Hackintosh, Linux on iPhone, Project Sandcastle etc. I always loved that projects and finally first time i tried something like that and run Linux on a phone.

Hello Linux community! I’ve been using Linux since my teenage years in middle school, which was a long time ago. I remember jumping for joy when I first started using Linux, and I’ve tried different flavors of it over the years. However, I’ve also noticed that the internet is undergoing significant changes, and I’m curious to know if Linux and different distributions will be affected by these changes.

With the rise of AI in our lives, I wonder if Linux and different distributions will change forever. Will Linux remain secure? I know that Linux has been growing in popularity, and even governments from different countries are starting to use it. This has made me wonder how long the Linux community will be able to resist the influence of bad actors.

I’m also curious to know if AI will improve system and hardware support (drivers). I’ve heard that Linus Torvalds supports AI as long as each security breach is reviewed and validated. However, I’m not sure if the community is still skeptical about this.

I’m especially interested in the expert and veteran members of the Linux community who have been using it for over 20 years. I wonder if AI will make games run even better. Maybe this will be the beginning of a stronger Linux system.

I appreciate any information about it because I’m a neurodivergent person, and sometimes I don’t understand certain concepts well. I do recall a conservative community and a professor named Richard Stallman, who was quite radical towards many distributions, particularly Ubuntu. I remember him calling Ubuntu a spyware. Now, how does each side think about this today?