Qualcomm Software Performance Optimization Expert – XR Research levels 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

368377784

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with functional teams to understand the algorithms and software implementations, analyze and identify performance issues and bottlenecks, come up with plans to optimize the overall performance of software deliverables.

• Implement, port and optimize algorithms related to XR technologies including perception, computer vision, image processing, on Qualcomm’s platforms. The focus is on the usage of SIMD techniques such as ARM Neon and Qualcomm HVX, tiling, unrolling, prefetching, maximizing cache utilization, optimal multithreading, handling float & fixed-point conversions, and with compute & memory constraints.

• Generate test vectors and validate the optimized software for bit exactness against original software implementation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 to 14 years of extensive software development and performance optimization experience with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, information systems, or a related field.

• Demonstrated expertise in software performance evaluation and optimizations using SIMD techniques such as Qualcomm-HVX/ARM-Neon/x86-SSE, Halide, CUDA, optimal tiling, unrolling, prefetching, and/or multithreading.

• Strong knowledge of operating systems, multicore architecture, CPU/DSP architecture.

• Excellent analytical & communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fundamental understanding of signal processing and image/video/computer-vision algorithms.

• Prior experience with Qualcomm HVX and Qualcomm DSP/CPU architecture.

• Proficiency in C++ software design and development for multi-core architectures (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.