Job Description
Company
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems
General Summary
As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next generation experiences in area of integrated chipsets that power advanced mobile devices, XR/IoT/Automotive & compute platforms. As a Qualcomm's XR Technology Software Engineer you will design, develop, create, modify next generation technologies & platforms enabling the future of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality applications.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Work closely with a cross functional team to understand AR/VR use case requirements, dataflows, and HW/SW partitioning
Work closely with technology, hardware, and software experts to translate use-case requirements into implementation specifications and contributing to SW Design
Early engagement with customers and works on aligning with product management on platform requirements.
Leverage expert software knowledge and experience to implement and oversee the design, development, creation, modification, and validation of embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
Oversee the resolution of design, coding, and other technical issues by presenting end-to-end solutions.
Oversee code reviews, regression tests, and the triage of issues to ensure the quality of code.
Deploy state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms and features into commercial XR products
Develop production code and system architectures with excellent design quality
Expertise with modern C++ (11-20), and with writing reliable, maintainable, and idiomatic code
Experience with multi-core programming on heterogenous mobile architectures (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, tensor accelerators, System-on-a-Chip, embedded systems etc.)
Strong skills in analyzing performance, testing, and debugging on these systems
Solid experience with established software development processes (CI/CD, testing, code reviews, etc.)
Outstanding problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and team working skills
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2-10+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Master’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1-++ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
2-10+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
Experience with Augmented/Virtual Reality and general computer vision enabling technologies and devices
Proven experience in conducting architectural trade-offs, power/performance analysis and/or SW-HW trade-offs
Extensive knowledge of graphics pipeline, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines
Experience with embedded platforms such as Android, Linux
Experience with Python programming
Good knowledge of graphics pipeline, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
Works in the lab, can use hazardous chemicals (e.g., glue, machinery).
