Qualcomm Lead Engineer Senior 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

41360846

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs. Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

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

Responsibilities:

In this position, you will be responsible for the development and commercialization of ML solutions like Snapdragon Neural Processing Engine (SNPE) SDK on Qualcomm SoCs. You would be porting AI/ML solutions to various platforms and optimize the performance on multiple hardware accelerators (like CPU/GPU/NPU). You will have expert knowledge in deployment aspects of large software C/C++ dependency stacks using best practices. You will also have to keep up with the fast-paced development happening in the industry and academia to continuously enhance our solution from software engineering as well as machine learning standpoint.

Work Experience:

7-10 years of relevant work experience in software development.

Live and breathe quality software development with excellent analytical and debugging skills.

Strong understanding about Processor architecture, system design fundamentals.

Experience with embedded systems development or equivalent.

Strong development skills in C and C++.

Excellent communication skills (verbal, presentation, written).

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with optimizing algorithms for AI hardware accelerators (like CPU/GPU/NPU).

Experience in object-oriented software development and applying design patterns.

Background in mathematical operations: linear algebra, fast-math libraries.

Familiarity with neural network operators.

Floating-point, Fixed-point representations and Quantization concepts.

Experience with VLIW instruction set architecture.

Experience working with heterogeneous or parallel computing systems and knowledge of associated languages like OpenCL, CUDA, etc. is a plus.

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.