Qualcomm Lead Engineer - Audio 

India, Telangana, Hyderabad 

895473671

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.

6-8 years of embedded software development experience (academic and/or professional) with proficient C, C++, and scripting language (Java, Python, other) coding skills

• Solid knowledge of software design patterns and real-time, multi-threaded programming.

• Solid knowledge of embedded SoC architectures, operating systems, data structures, real-time hardware/software programming interfaces

• Strong embedded, real-time software debugging skills, preferably on Linux, Android platforms.

• Solid understanding of memory, cycle, power, and performance design constraints within embedded systems, particularly on Linux, Android platforms.

• Solid background and experience in several of the following areas:

• Good understanding on multimedia frameworks [eg: Android audio framework, Gstreamer ]

• Audio usage models including playback, record, streaming, Bluetooth

• Good to have understanding on Android Bluetooth Multimedia (AudioDeviceBroker/AudioDeviceInventory) stack.

• Basic understanding on Audio interfaces (e.g., I2S, SoundWire, PCIe).

• Basic understanding on Audio media formats (e.g., AAC, FLAC, aptX, LDAP, MP3, WMA).

• Android, Linux, or Windows multimedia frameworks and audio applications

• Android, Linux, code development and debug techniques

• Expertise developing and debugging embedded software on Qualcomm SoCs or ARM, Hexagon, other embedded processors.

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.