Qualcomm AR / VR Systems Architecture Lead 

United States, California, San Diego 

124255555

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems

The successful candidate may be responsible for:

• Working closely with OEM partners to identify, understand and document use cases and implementations of VR and AR related technologies

• Leading technology, hardware, and software experts to translate use case requirements into implementation specifications

• Driving system level on-target profiling to inform forward architecture definition

• System level use case modeling to validate power and performance KPIs and optimize architecture definition

• Defining and executing HW-SW partitioning analyses

• Defining and executing HW-SW feature analysis to optimize for power and performance

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

For this multi-disciplinary role an ideal candidate has proven expertise in AR/VR, display technologies, GPUs, computer vision, machine learning, perception, camera technology, hardware design, SoC architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and/or system modeling (power, performance, thermal).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree and/or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 10+ 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)

• Outstanding problem-solving skills

• Outstanding communication skills

• C/C++ and/or Python

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

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

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:

$167,000.00 - $251,000.00