Senior Lead/Senior Engineer - Static Analysis & Agentic AI

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc; Hyderabad City Taluka; On-site; PKR 2,400,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited seeks a Senior Lead/Senior Engineer to provide hands-on leadership for static-analysis across Linux, Android, embedded, and kernel C/C++ software. You will drive program analysis, toolchain architecture, and AI-enabled workflows, collaborating with diverse teams to meet security and performance goals.

The role requires deep expertise in static-analysis platforms, build systems, and cross-team execution, plus mentoring of engineers and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science with 3+ years in Security Engineering or related work.
• Master’s degree with 2+ years in Security Engineering or related work.
• PhD with 1+ year in Security Engineering or related work.
• 3-7 years of experience in static analysis, compilers, program analysis, systems software, software security, or developer infrastructure.
• Advanced programming in C/C++ and Python.
• Experience designing or scaling static-analysis solutions.
• Hands-on experience building AI/Agentic AI solutions.
• Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers.

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 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.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Static analysis

Linux

Android

Security engineering

AI/LLM

Mentoring

CI/CD

Build systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/CS

Master’s degree in Engineering/CS

PhD in Engineering/CS

M.Tech/MS or PhD

Tools

Klocwork

Coverity

Parasoft

CodeQL

Clang/LLVM

GCC/Clang

Android Soong/Ninja

CMake

Bazel

Yocto/BitBake

Buildroot

Job description

Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Security Engineering

General 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.
• 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.