XR Software Engineer

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 1-9+ 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).

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$179,000.00 - $268,400.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm.  We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus).  In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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