Job Description

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems

General Summary

Qualcomm's Visual Technology Team is seeking a systems architect who will work on driving the next generation technologies and architectures, enabling the next generation of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality applications.

The Successful Candidate Will Be Responsible For

Identifying, understanding and documenting use cases and implementations of AR/VR and related technologies

Working with technology, hardware and software experts to translate use case requirements into implementation specifications

System level profiling and modeling of the use cases (power, performance, thermal)

Defining and executing HW-SW partitioning analyses

Defining and executing HW-SW feature analysis to optimize for power and performance

System level use case modeling to validate and optimize architecture definition

For this multi-disciplinary role an ideal candidate has proven expertise in AR/VR, computer vision, machine learning, perception, camera technology, hardware design, SoC architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and/or system modeling (power, performance, thermal).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree and/or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years experience in HW architecture/design with emphasis on areas listed above
• Proven experience in conducting architectural trade-offs, power/performance analysis and/or SW-HW trade-offs
• Knowledge of graphics pipeline, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines
• Experience with system level modeling (performance and/or power)
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• Outstanding communication skills
• C/C++ and/or Python
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Monitors and utilizes computers and test equipment for more than 6 hours a day.
• Continuous communication (e.g., on conference calls) which includes the comprehension of information with colleagues, customers, and vendors both in person and remotely.
• Works in the lab, can use hazardous chemicals (e.g., glue, machinery).
  
  

Education

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors - Computer Science, Bachelors - Engineering, Bachelors - Information Systems

Work Experiences

2+ years of Systems engineering or related work experience.

Skills

Certifications:

Education

Preferred Qualifications

Doctorate - Computer Science, Doctorate - Electrical Engineering, Masters - Computer Science, Masters - Electrical Engineering

Work Experiences

2+ years experience working in one or more multimedia technology areas (i.e., speech, audio, imaging, computer vision, display, sensing, biometrics, augmented/virtual reality). ,4+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience

Skills

ARM Architectures, Audio Processing, C++ Programming Language, Multimedia Systems, Video Coding

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