XR Software Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

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 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 Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.