Staff Engineer, Imaging Software

 
Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited
 
Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering
General Summary:
Staff Engineer, Imaging Software
Job Overview
Qualcomm has pioneered print interpreter software for over a decade and continuous to play a central role in rendering for printer firmware. It is one of the most widely used print language software in the industry, supporting all standard page description languages and their latest features. We are looking for professionals who are adaptable, quick learner and contribute to design, development, and day-to-day advancements in PDL feature sets. The development will be on Linux platforms. Responsible for multisite design/development and supporting customers/OEM. As part of the printer team, you will be closely working on Page Descriptive Language interpretation, imaging, display lists, rendering that involves color conversions, fonts, compression, print settings, device and job handling, etc.,
Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.ORMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.ORPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

Key Responsibilities:

Ability to multitask in a paced environment.

Capability to comprehend and capture accurate requirements.

Define tasks and create work breakdown including estimation of tasks.

Ability to prioritize requests and communicate priorities.

Develop and test software of major scale and complexity to agreed timescales.

Maintain firmware software components including defect investigation.

Conduct software peer reviews.

Create relevant documentation following the department"™s processes.

Design firmware components that require to be enhanced and adapted to existing design.

Deliver high-quality firmware in line with the department"™s processes.

Contribute to continuous development of the department"™s processes.

Required:

Excellent
C and/or C++ programming skills with proven experience of writing efficient code for high performance and memory constrained systems.

Extensive
product software
development experience in embedded environments.

Excellent
trouble shooting and analytical skills that may be applied to modeling solutions mathematically to resolve potential system issues.

Ability to provide work breakdown for new features with feasibility study, effort estimates and risk mitigation.

Strong communication skills with ability to evaluate and create design documentation detailing complex features and relationships.

Effective leadership skills that should help to plan and deliver the tasks as well as to manage and delegate work to the team.

Prior printer firmware development experience would be a bonus

Raster and/or
vector print
data handling

Image transformations like scaling, rotation, half-tones, etc.,

PDLs, Fonts, color space, rendering models, display lists.

Minimum Qualifications:
"¢ Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
"¢ 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.


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