Engineer, Senior Staff - Audio Drivers
Qualcomm · Hyderabad · onsite · Posted 29d ago
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The Senior Staff Engineer Audio is a senior technical leadership role responsible for defining, architecting, and delivering complex audio technologies across platforms and products. This role owns endtoend audio features from requirements and system design through implementation, optimization, validation, and production support while influencing technical direction across teams.
The individual is expected to work independently with minimal supervision, provide technical leadership to engineers and consultants, and collaborate closely with crossfunctional partners including product management, platform, and customer engineering teams.
Company and Job Area Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited
Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
Key Responsibilities Technical Leadership Architecture - Own architecture and systemlevel design for complex audio features and subsystems across software, DSP, and platform layers (e.g., audio frameworks, HALs, DSP pipelines, audio effects, routing, and performance optimization).
- Translate product and usecase requirements into clear technical designs, HLDs/LLDs, and implementation plans, including APIs, control/data flows, threading models, and timing constraints.
- Drive design tradeoffs related to audio quality, latency, power, memory, and system performance.
- Lead implementation of highquality, productionready audio software and/or DSP components using bestinclass engineering practices.
- Ensure features are fully validated through unit tests, integration tests, system tests, and customer validation flows before release.
- Guide code integration and release into build/test/release pipelines, tracking progress through internal validation and postcustomer support phases.
- Collaborate with product owners and program leads to plan and execute audio roadmaps, milestones, and deliverables.
- Partner with platform, DSP, hardware, and system teams to enable endtoend audio solutions across devices and form factors.
- Support customer and partner engagements by providing deep technical insight, debugging, and solution guidance when required.
- Provide technical mentorship and design guidance to senior, midlevel, and junior engineers, including consultants and temporary staff.
- Lead design and code reviews, driving feedback to closure and raising the overall engineering quality bar.
- Influence broader organizational technical decisions by contributing to standards, best practices, and longterm architectural direction.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- Significant industry experience in audio software, DSP, multimedia systems, or embedded platforms.
- Strong expertise in one or more of the following:
- Audio frameworks and pipelines (e.g., Android audio stack, ALSA, ASoC, or equivalent)
- DSP audio processing, algorithms, and optimization
- Lowlatency, realtime, and powerefficient audio systems
- Proficiency in systems programming languages such as C/C++ (and scripting languages where applicable).
- Proven experience owning complex technical features endtoend with minimal supervision.
- Experience with crossOS or crossplatform audio solutions (mobile, automotive, IoT, XR, or embedded systems).
- Handson experience with performance profiling, latency analysis, and power optimization for audio workloads.
- Prior experience influencing technical direction beyond immediate team scope or acting as a vertical/area owner.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for conveying complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Operates independently and makes technically sound decisions with moderate organizational impact.
- Recognized as a goto expert for audio technology within the organization.
- Errors, if any, are typically detected through established review and validation processes and have limited business impact, though they may require crossteam coordination to resolve.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
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