Qualcomm XR Systems Lead Engineer – Research 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

341858139

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

As an XR Systems Lead Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of augmented and virtual reality technologies. Your responsibilities will span across technical leadership, system architecture, and software implementation. 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 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:

• 7+ 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:

• 7+ 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 programming.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

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

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

• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

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.