Foss Compliance Engineer
Qualcomm · Hyderabad · onsite · Posted 57d ago
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FOSS Engineer
Job Description Qualcomm Open Source Engineering team is looking for a FOSS Compliance Engineer in Hyderabad to ensure our products and services meet open source licensing obligations and industry best practices. This role requires strong hands-on experience in FOSS compliance operations.
The primary responsibilities include ensuring license compliance, enhancing software license reporting, and maintaining a software bill of materials (SBOM) and FOSS reports for all product lines. Additionally, the role involves automating compliance processes, educating the development community, and collaborating with various teams to ensure adherence to licensing obligations.
What You'll Do - Perform FOSS compliance analysis for software products and services across the business units or product lines (source and binaries).
- Identify and analyze OSS licenses and assess impact on commercial distribution.
- Maintain accurate inventories of components, licenses, obligations, and attributions; ensure traceability across source code, third-party binaries, images, and containers.
- Operate and integrate SCA tooling (FossID preferred) and embed scans into development workflows.
- Automate compliance workflows (Python) for scanning, SBOM generation/validation, approvals, reporting, and release readiness checks.
- Apply SBOM standards and best practices (SPDX, CycloneDX) across the product lifecycle; publish, validate, and version SBOMs for releases.
- Conduct OSS risk assessments (licensing, security, provenance) and recommend practical remediation strategies (substitution, configuration, exception management).
- Guide development teams on OSS intake, dependency linking, proper attribution, notice files, and license-compliant usage patterns.
- Stay current on licensing trends, regulatory developments, and community practices; contribute to continuous improvement of policies and processes.
- Support reviews, audits, and governance activities, including prerelease compliance gates, customer/partner disclosures, and internal/external audits.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- Or Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
- Or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
- Experience with FOSS compliance analysis, reporting and publishing.
- Hands-on experience using Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools such as FossID, Black Duck or equivalent.
- Familiarity with SBOM standards (SPDX, CycloneDX) and validation best practices.
- Familiarity or experience with OpenChain standard and implementation.
- Ability to read programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Python, Go.
- Ability to automate license compliance reporting and integrate it into CI/CD processes.
- Strong attention to detail and high-quality output.
- Ability to work independently, drive improvements, meet schedules, and exhibit strong writing skills.
- Experience with Linux OS is preferred.
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