Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Job Description

Qualcomm’s Open Source Engineering (OSEng) team enables Qualcomm to use, contribute to, and distribute products with open-source software. OSEng influences policy, analyzes software composition, and builds and maintains the tooling and infrastructure that supports these activities. The team has multi-disciplinary experience and skills, spanning full-stack development, infrastructure, and compliance.

Your work will include developing web applications, services, automation, and workflows to generate Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), optimize the open-source review process, and support open development at Qualcomm. You will develop the applications and systems that power these efforts. This includes integrating with engineering tools and systems, troubleshooting and scripting in a Linux environment, reviewing data to troubleshoot issues, and working with IT and release engineering to investigate problems in engineering environments. You will interact directly with end-users and stakeholders across the company to resolve problems, gather requirements, and provide support to our compliance, legal, and product engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and support full-stack web applications and services

• Build and extend automation and workflows to optimize the open-source review process

• Collaborate with end-users to gather requirements and resolve issues

Required Skills

• 5+ years of relevant software development experience

• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle

• Understanding of web service, application, and microservice architectures

• Strong Python web development experience

• Expertise with Django and React

• Experience building asynchronous task pipelines with Celery and RabbitMQ

• Solid SQL skills; experience with PostgreSQL preferred

• Proficiency with Git

• Comfortable working in a Linux environment, including shell scripting and troubleshooting

• Strong communication and problem-solving skills

• Proactive and self-directed, with a strong sense of ownership over the quality and outcomes of your work

• Detail-oriented with the ability to document issues and resolutions clearly

Preferred Skills

• Experience with the open-source ecosystem, license compliance tooling (FOSSID, ScanCode-toolkit), and SBOM standards (SPDX, CycloneDX)

• Experience with additional frontend frameworks (Redux, RTK)

• Experience with Docker and writing Dockerfiles

• Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration

• Understanding of open-source licensing models and compliance workflows

• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or Prefect

• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and workflows

• Experience developing applications using LLMs or agentic frameworks

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities

We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.



What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus

• Maternity/Paternity Leave

• Employee stock purchase scheme

• Matching pension scheme

• Education Assistance

• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)

• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance

• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being

• Bicycle purchase scheme

• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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