Qualcomm Software Engineer Game Developer Technologies – PC Gaming 

United States, California, San Diego 

610565964

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Gaming Engineering

The position is a multi-disciplinary role where you will be responsible for collaborating with game developers and various partners to help optimize CPU, GPU, and the overall system performance of legacy and new games for Snapdragon. In addition to direct engagement with developers you will work to evangelize best practices and optimization strategies within the game development community.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Game Development, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in Game Development, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Applies knowledge of software gaming to assist in the architecture, design, implementation, verification, and optimization of visual fidelity, responsiveness, functionality, performance, and power of game applications for mobile, computer, XR, console, auto, and cloud products.

• Assists in the design and development of game rendering, engine, animation, artificial intelligence, networking, user interface, physics, and audio software and algorithms.

• Develops new game software, game engines and/or gaming tools and enhance existing commercial game engines for hardware targets and operating systems.

• Utilizes gaming software running on CPU, GPU, DSP, NPU, DPU and other application processor components.

• Debugs gaming issues (e.g., rendered images, power, performance) and designs experiments to prove or disprove theories, determine the source, and develop solutions.

Assists in performing pre- and post- target bring up game verification to validate correctness and ensure performance and power goals are met for top games.

Level of Responsibility:

• Works under supervision.

• Decision-making affects direct area of work and/or work group.

• Requires verbal and written communication skills to convey basic, routine factual information.

• Tasks consist of a limited number of steps and can be referenced using directions or manuals.

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.

$94,200.00 - $141,200.00