XR Systems Technology Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Job Overview 

Qualcomm's XR Systems team is seeking a systems architect who will work on driving the next generation technologies and architectures, enabling the future of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality applications. 

  

The successful candidate will be responsible for (one or more of the following): 

Identifying, understanding, and documenting use cases and implementations of AR/VR and related technologies 

Leading technology, hardware and software experts to translate use case requirements into implementation specifications 

Contribute on technical workstreams for perception, reprojection and split-processing, including quality validation, latency/quality trade-offs etc. 

Contribute on technical workstreams for sensor/display advancements, interface optimizations, reference design scoping for XR feature prototyping 

System level use case modeling to validate and optimize architecture definition  

Defining requirements for custom hardware accelerators and general purpose compute cores for XR features/flows & workloads 

Defining and executing HW-SW feature analysis to optimize for power and performance 

For this multi-disciplinary role an ideal candidate has proven expertise in AR/VR, computer vision, machine learning, perception, camera technology, hardware design, SoC architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and/or system modeling (power, performance, thermal). 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, and project experience in architecture/micro-architecture 
• 4+ years of system engineering or related work experience  
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills 

 Preferred Qualifications 

• Master’s and/or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science 
• Experience with Mixed & Augmented reality system design, constraints, and trade-offs 
• Extensive knowledge of graphics pipeline, reprojection and advanced rendering techniques, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines 
• Proven experience in conducting architectural trade-offs, power/performance analysis and/or SW-HW trade-offs 
• Experience with system level modeling (performance and/or power) 
• 3+ years experience in one or more of above areas 
• C/C++ programming  

Keywords 

Camera, GPU, CPU, SOC, System engineering, Hardware designing, Computer vision, Artificial Intelligence, ML, DSP, AR, VR, MR, XR 

Educational Requirements 

Required: Bachelor’s, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience  

Preferred: Master’s / Doctorate, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering 

Minimum Qualifications:

•    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.

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