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Company

Qualcomm Middle East Information Technology Company LLC

Job Area

Information Technology Group, Information Technology Group > Cyber Security Engineering

General Summary

About Us

Qualcomm is enabling a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected. You interact with products and technologies made possible by Qualcomm every day, including 5G-enabled smartphones that double as pro-level cameras and gaming devices, smarter vehicles and cities, and the technology behind the smart, connected factories that manufactured your latest purchase. Qualcomm 5G and AI innovations are the power behind the connected intelligent edge. You’ll find our technologies behind and inside the innovations that deliver significant value across multiple industries and to billions of people every day.

About The Role

YOU MUST BE A SAUDI NATIONAL TO BE CONSIDERED

We are a collaborative team

We are always learning, sharing, and researching. You will work with engineers and business stakeholders across the company to secure complex infrastructure and applications. You will need communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills, and the ability to learn and grow in a rapidly evolving environment. We welcome candidates who are passionate about cybersecurity and eager to learn and grow as engineers on our team. At Qualcomm, we are committed to fostering a culture of innovation. We value collaboration, creativity, and the power of diverging viewpoints. A significant part of our success as a company comes from our ability to collaborate effectively, analyze complex problems, identify potential solutions, and ultimately converge on a winning strategy. This collective buy-in fosters incredible teamwork and drives our achievements.

Join us and be part of a team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of technology and making a positive impact on the world.

We are looking for motivated people

We are looking for those who have experience in the areas listed, but even more importantly a strong desire to learn and grow as a Cybersecurity Engineer and team player. At this level, we are committed to help provide training opportunities to acclimate new employees to how Qualcomm’s cybersecurity team operates.

Preferred Qualifications

Qualcomm values people from all walks of life and backgrounds. We understand not everyone will meet all the qualifications below on day one. That's okay! If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, if you cover even some of these preferences - we encourage you to apply.

• 5+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Familiarity with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Cybersecurity-relevant certifications.
• Fluency in Arabic
  
  
  

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Hands‑on security engineering for large datacenter and sovereign AI deployments, implementing cryptography, key management, and secure infrastructure architectures in production environments.
• Design, implement, and operate Infrastructure Identity & PKI, maintaining mTLS, certificate lifecycle automation, and secure key/secret handling using KMS platforms; produce and maintain operational runbooks.
• Configure and operate perimeter security controls, including day‑to‑day management of next‑generation firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto, Fortinet) to enforce ingress/egress policies and protect cluster boundaries.
• Implement data sovereignty and compliance controls by validating architectures against regulatory frameworks (e.g., KSA NCA ECC, CCC, PDPL), identifying gaps, and executing technical remediation.
• Engineer storage security protections, enabling encryption at rest and enforcing NFS/S3 access controls on VAST/DDN platforms to secure training data, model weights, and sensitive assets.
• Secure Kubernetes and containerized workloads, applying cluster hardening, pod security standards, and workload isolation in partnership with platform and software teams.
• Execute vulnerability management operations, running scans, validating findings, prioritizing critical CVEs, and working directly with engineers to remediate issues through closure.
• Serve as an active incident responder, performing investigation, containment, and remediation for security events, and coordinating technically with the MSSP during escalations.
• Implement IAM controls across infrastructure and platforms, enforcing least privilege, RBAC, and privileged access for users, service accounts, and workloads.
• Perform hands‑on threat modeling and security reviews, identifying attack paths, validating assumptions, documenting findings, and strengthening defenses across infrastructure and AI systems.
• Lead and directly respond to escalated security incidents during business hours and after hours, providing rapid triage, decisive containment, and coordinated investigation while maintaining clear communication with stakeholders and executives to minimize business impact.
  
  
  

What's On Offer

Apart from working with great people, we offer the below:

• Salary including housing & transport allowance
• Stock (RSU's) and performance related bonus
• 16 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
• 6 weeks fully paid Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Child Education Allowance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life and Medical Insurance
• Live+ Well Reimbursement for health and recreational membership fees
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience.
  
  
  

OR

High school diploma or equivalent and 4+ years of cybersecurity-relevant work experience.

• 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 is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

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