XR Research Engineer

Employer

Job Description

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems

General Summary

Qualcomm is taking its traditional strengths in digital wireless technologies in exciting new fields such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Come join the team that helped Qualcomm win Innovative VR Company of the Year at AIXR’s 4th Annual VR Awards.

Qualcomm XR is rapidly expanding to offer state of the art perception solutions. To scale and strengthen our offering in this domain, we are seeking candidates with strong software development knowledge and hands-on experience in computer vision technologies including 2D/3D feature detection, tracking and registration, Visual Inertial Odometry, SLAM, Object Detection and Tracking, 3D Reconstruction, along with ability to map computer vision algorithms to real-time implementation on mobile platforms, and investigate hardware/software tradeoffs.

Software development engineers interact closely with computer vision and deep learning engineers and software developers in a world-class XR team with a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities In This Role Shall Include The Following

Design, implement and optimize vision and neural network processing pipelines and algorithms on Qualcomm’s SoCs and platforms.

Closely collaborate with product owners and domain/technology experts to integrate/validate software in a larger system.

Debugging in different software environments and on hardware. You will need to interact closely with internal teams and potentially support/work with external customers.

Minimum Experience

Excellent C++ and Object-Oriented Programming skills demonstrated through relevant industry experience

Outstanding problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and team working skills.

Preferred Experience

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and real time systems coding experience

Testing and debugging on mobile platforms or other embedded systems

Strong skills in analyzing performance of AI/CV solutions on heterogenous architectures (core, cache, memory, bus, etc.).

Software development experience in heterogenous/multi-core architectures (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, tensor accelerators etc.).

Experience with software process improvements through measurable KPIs

Candidates With Experience In The Following Areas Are Preferred

Mobile device operating systems such as Android

OpenGL ES, NEON programming, Scripting

Machine Learning, Neural Networks

Graphics, game engine SW architecture

Developing visual computing software

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

7+ 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). ,10+ years of Systems engineering or related work experience.

Skills

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

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