Job Description

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

Job Overview:
Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age - and this is where you come in.

Responsibilities

The selected candidate will have responsibilities in one or more of the following areas:

• Work with other leads on design and technology development activities for computer vision systems including studying state of the art algorithms and profiling on target platforms, hardware/software partitioning of algorithms and provide architecture and specifications for hardware implementation.
• Come up with adaptations of existing algorithms that will enable new functionalities through hardware implementation. This work will involve close collaborations with algorithm developers, SoC architects and designers to drive to hardware development that will enable novel AR/VR experiences with state-of-the-art advances in performance, power and silicon area.
• Systems and hardware architecture development will span conventional computer vision frameworks as well as neural network-based frameworks for the enablement of AR/VR experiences.
  
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Working knowledge of computer vision tasks in AR/VR including SLAM, 3D Scene understanding, Feature and Object Tracking methods
• Expertise in systems architecture and hardware design supporting computer vision and machine learning use cases.
• Expertise in methods for partitioning a solution across hardware and software within an overall systems solution.
• Experience in developing hardware systems level architecture for accelerators targeted to real time computer vision tasks.
• Experience in evaluating system and hardware block level architecture tradeoffs in throughput, latency, power and area.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Programming skills in C/C++, Python and experience with hands-on coding for the purpose of collaborating with HW designers to adopt the proposed systems architecture in a hardware accelerator.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with significant systems and hardware design topics related coursework.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Have deep domain knowledge in terms of algorithms and/or hardware solutions for various AR/VR tasks including Head Pose estimation, SLAM, Scene understanding, Body Pose Estimation etc. is preferred
• Expertise in deep neural network processing frameworks for computer vision tasks
• Experience with top-down high-level model to HW mapping and developing the architecture for hardware acceleration of AR/VR tasks such as SLAM is a plus.
• Have multiple years of industry experience developing systems and hardware level solutions in computer vision area and/or AR/VR systems
• Knowledge of industry trends and disruptive technologies in computer vision area with emphasis on AR/VR
• Results oriented, self-motivated, proactive and have demonstrated creative and critical thinking skills and being able to operate with minimum high-level direction.
• PhD degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with emphasis in Systems architecture and hardware development for real time systems in computer vision and/or AR/VR areas.
  
  
  

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