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Qualcomm | Canada | Full Time | Engineer | Remote(Canada) | QEMU

Qualcomm · Full Time · back to the listing

HR standards

50/100

needs work

Title ↔ description

53/100

needs work

Reads as

Backend Engineer

94% confident

What this role officially is

software developer — ESCO, the EU occupation classification

Software developers implement or program all kinds of software systems based on specifications and designs by using programming languages, tools, and platforms.

Also known as: application developer, application programmer, solutions developer, programmer, software specialist, application software developer

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What the listing never says

  • No section describes what the person would actually do. Scope clarity
  • No pay range published. Candidates cannot tell whether applying is worth their time. Pay transparency
  • No location or timezone policy stated, so a candidate cannot tell where they may work from. Scope clarity

The listing, marked up

Nothing in the wording of this listing tripped a check. The scores above still judge how complete and coherent it is.

My team is looking to hire a ~entry-level software developer to help us design and extend QEMU support [1] for the Hexagon DSP [2]. We're looking for candidates who have experience coding in C, C++ or Rust* and who aren't afraid of rolling up their sleeves and poring over disassembled code. This particular architecture is a bit more challenging than most, because it's a bit unique. It's a VLIW [3], so it's a great opportunity to learn about an interesting architecture. Millions of Hexagon DSPs are out there, most are found in DragonWing/Snapdragon/DragonFly SoCs for Laptops, Android phones, cars and more!
We collaborate a lot with Open Source communities like QEMU, LLVM [4], the Linux kernel [5], and more. I love being able to work on Open Source software at my day job.
You can contact me directly (email addr is in my HN user link). If you don't have experience with QEMU - don't worry! Most of us didn't have any experience with it until recently, too.
The rest of the team you'd work with lives mostly in Canada, EU, US.
* Rust experience may serve the role well but we don’t (yet) have any product software in Rust.
[1] https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/master/target/hexagon
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Hexagon
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_long_instruction_word
[4] https://foundation.llvm.org/docs/sponsors/
[5] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/our-members-are-our-superpower-2/

How this was produced

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Deterministic penalty applied to the HR score: 16 points (from 66 before penalties). Reviewed 2 Oct 2026.