Qualcomm Principal Software Engineer Game Developer Windows Compute 

United States, California 

646948072

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 and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Game Development, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Game Development, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 3+ years of relevant Gaming Software experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9+ years of professional experience

• Knowledge of C/C++ Knowledge of graphics APIs (DirectX, or Vulkan)

• Understanding of modern PC, and console game engine rendering pipelines

• CPU and GPU performance analysis skills

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Self-motivated

• Familiarity with 3D graphics profilers and debuggers such as RenderDoc, Pix, NSight, etc.

• Comfortable working in large unfamiliar C/C++ codebases

• Experience creating technical training content such as frameworks, samples, tutorials, videos, etc.

• Experience developing, profiling, and optimizing modern rendering algorithms

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:

$180,000.00 - $270,000.00