Qualcomm XR Systems & Software Architect – Research 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

291456423

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will span across technical leadership, system architecture, software architecture, implementation and compute analysis. Here are the key aspects of your role:

• Drive technical workstreams related to perception, reprojection, split-processing and other XR technologies.

• Identify and deeply understand the use cases for AR/VR/MR applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate use case requirements into detailed implementation specifications.

• Define system and software architecture, considering hardware/software tradeoffs, compute and memory constraints. Optimize compute workload distribution across different subsystems on the SoC for efficient performance and power.

• Validate and optimize architecture definitions through system-level use case modeling.

• Prototype new use cases to understand the compute and memory requirements, and influence future software/hardware features and reference device specification.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 9+ years of experience in systems engineering with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, information systems, computer science, or related field.

• Hands-on experience in defining systems architecture and software design for multi-core architectures (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, etc.), including performance analysis on heterogeneous architectures (core, multi-level cache, memory, etc.).

• Proficiency in documenting call flows and data flows for both software and hardware components.

• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering with master’s and/or PhD degree in electrical engineering, information systems, computer science.

• Proven expertise in AR/VR, computer vision, machine learning, perception, camera technology, graphics pipeline, hardware design, SoC architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and system modeling (power, performance).

• Proficiency in C++, and Object-Oriented SW design

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

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

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

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