Qualcomm XR Technology Systems Engineer 

United States, California, San Diego 

601447242

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems

The successful candidate will be responsible for one or more of the following roles:

• Driving technical workstreams across key technology tracks (perception, rendering, composition, reprojection, split-processing, user input interfaces, camera & display processing). Key role here is to have forward looking perspective and identify opportunities for prototyping, demonstrating the system level trade-offs (working with respective technology team(s) ), helping define the feature goodness criteria from end use case perspective.

• Collaborating with technology experts to drive strategic direction in cross-functional AR/MR/VR areas.

• Working with technology, hardware, and software experts to translate use-case requirements into implementation specifications and contributing to reference design planning.

• Engaging on identifying and scoping new use-cases.

• Early engagement with customers and works on aligning with product management on platform requirements.

• Working with technology tracks to drive the system level what-ifs/trade-offs and helping with competitive analysis.

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).

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

*Works in the lab, can use hazardous chemicals (e.g., glue, machinery).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s and/or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science

• 4+ 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

• Extensive knowledge of graphics pipeline, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines

• Experience with system level modeling (performance and/or power)

• C/C++ programming

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.

Pay range:

$114,500.00 - $171,500.00