Systems Staff Engineer – Sensors - Cork, Ireland

Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

About The Role

Qualcomm offers flexible work options tailored to our employee’s needs. These include a combination of work from home and working in our brand new, state of the art office in Penrose Dock, Cork. Well-being and life balance are fundamental to Qualcomm as an employer.  We recognise and understand that employees have missed spending quality time with loved ones and extended family. As such, Cork Qualcomm policy allows our employees to blend short-term remote working with annual leave.

Sensors-based technology has a wide range of applications including navigation, gaming, smart user interface, multimedia, virtual reality and augmented reality. This challenging position offers the opportunity to work with leading edge sensor technologies embedded in smartphones, automotive, IOT, smartwatches as well as other consumer electronics devices. Job activities span the whole product life cycle from early R&D to commercial deployment. The successful candidate will work with systems, software, and integration/test engineers in the QCT sensors group

Job responsibilities include:

• Working with global systems and software teams
• Developing sensor algorithms in high level languages (MATLAB, Python) including algorithm performance validation
• Making effective engineering tradeoffs between performance, memory, power consumption, and computational complexity
• Embedded software development in C/C++ for fixed & floating-point based designs
• Creating reports on algorithm evaluation results and delivering complete design and user documentation
• Communication of the design, results and issues to the product management, systems and SW leads
•  Leading the systems projects end-to-end from requirements gathering to systems design and SW implementation
• Mentoring and guiding junior engineers

The position is technology focused and involves participation in a broad range of sensors systems engineering activities within the Sensors Technologies group

All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering/Science, or related field with 6+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering/Science, or related field with 5+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering/Science, or related field with 3+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the following areas:

• Understanding of basics of digital signal processing, linear algebra, probability and statistics
• Advanced Machine Learning concepts including supervised and unsupervised learning, feature extraction, classification, logistic regression, Bayesian inference and Neural Networks
• Familiarity with ML libraries and packages
• Embedded programming skills with C/C++
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced team environment
• Knowledge of MEMs & inertial sensors
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Optional – 1+ years of experience in people management, mentoring and coaching junior engineers in technical and non-technical aspects.

Where you will be working

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland's second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies.
There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life.
A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities
We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

What's on Offer

Apart from working in an open, relaxed and collaborative space, you will enjoy:

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

*References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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.

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