XR Software Senior Engineer

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next generation experiences in area of integrated chipsets that power advanced mobile devices, XR/IoT/Automotive & compute platforms. As a Qualcomm's XR Technology Software Engineer you will design, develop, create, modify next generation technologies & platforms enabling the future of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality applications.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work closely with a cross functional team to understand AR/VR use case requirements, dataflows, and HW/SW partitioning
• Work closely with technology, hardware, and software experts to translate use-case requirements into implementation specifications and contributing to SW Design
• Leverage expert software knowledge and experience to implement and oversee the design, development, creation, modification, and validation of embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
• Oversee the resolution of design, coding, and other technical issues by presenting end-to-end solutions.
• Oversee code reviews, regression tests, and the triage of issues to ensure the quality of code.
• Deploy state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms and features into commercial XR products
• Develop production code and system architectures with excellent design quality
• Expertise with modern C++ (11-20), and with writing reliable, maintainable, and idiomatic code
• Experience with multi-core programming on heterogenous mobile architectures (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, tensor accelerators, System-on-a-Chip, embedded systems etc.)
• Outstanding problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and team working skills

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2-10+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1-9+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• OR
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of academic or work experience with programming language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• OR
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• OR
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8 to 12 years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Experience with Augmented/Virtual Reality and general computer vision enabling technologies and devices
• Proven experience in conducting architectural trade-offs, power/performance analysis and/or SW-HW trade-offs
• Extensive knowledge of graphics pipeline, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines
• Experience with embedded platforms such as Android, Linux
• Experience with Python programming
• Good knowledge of graphics pipeline, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines