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title: "Nishant Raj - Senior Lead Engineer in Karnataka | Tal"
description: "Meet Nishant Raj, Senior Lead Engineer at Qualcomm | M.Tech - Gold Medalist 🥇 at NITK Surathkal based in Karnataka. AI stack includes cursor, opencode, and claudecode."
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# Nishant Raj on Tal

## Headline

Senior Lead Engineer at Qualcomm \| M\.Tech \- Gold Medalist 🥇 at NITK Surathkal

## About

I am looking to enhance my skill set by deepening my understanding of technology and leveraging it more effectively\. I am already proficient in design and implementation, and I aim to further refine and expand my capabilities\.

## Location

Karnataka

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Senior Lead Engineer at Qualcomm, Dec 2025 \- Present · 9 mos

Senior Software Engineer at Qualcomm, Dec 2022 \- Nov 2025 · 3 yrs, Automotive Security\. Development of SW components to provide HW security capabilities on virtualized environments for in\-car infotainment\.

Software Engineer at Qualcomm, Jun 2020 \- Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos, Automotive Security\. Development of SW components to provide HW security capabilities on virtualized environments for in\-car infotainment\.

Intern at Indian Institute of Science \(IISc\), May 2019 \- Jul 2019 · 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, TITLE: Cryptographic Algorithm implementation and validation of SHA3 and XTS\-AES \(Cryptographic Algorithmic Validation Program \(CAVP\)\) The Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program \(CAVP\) provides validation testing of FIPS\-approved and NIST\-recommended cryptographic algorithms and their individual components\. CAVP tool is used by CST \(Cryptography System Testing\)\. It consists of mostly all the cryptographic algorithms \(e\.g\., Encryption Algo, Hash Algo, Key Exchange Algorithm\)\. I worked on the implementation of: 1\) SHA\-3 Bit\-Oriented algorithm for hashing\. 2\) XTS\-AES is a block cipher mode used for Disk en/de\-cryption\.

Teaching Assistant at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Aug 2018 \- Jun 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos, Mangalore Area, India

## Education

Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering\- Information Security, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, haldia institute of technology

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