XR Systems Architect

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm's XR Technology Systems team is seeking motivated engineers with who will work on driving next generation technologies & platforms enabling the future of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality applications. This team interfaces with product management, platform architecture, technology/IP and software implementation leads.



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

Driving technical workstreams across key technology tracks (perception, rendering, composition, reprojection, split-processing, user input interfaces, camera & display processing). Key role here is to have forward looking perspective and identify opportunities for prototyping, demonstrating the system level trade-offs (working with respective technology team(s), helping define the feature goodness criteria from end use case perspective. Collaborating with technology experts to drive strategic direction in cross-functional AR/MR/VR areas. Working with technology, hardware, and software experts to translate use-case requirements into implementation specifications and contributing to reference design planning. Engaging on identifying and scoping new use-cases Early engagement with customers and works on aligning with product management on platform requirements. Working with technology tracks to drive the system level what-ifs/trade-offs and helping with competitive analysis.

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

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, and project experience in architecture/micro-architecture

1+ years of system engineering or related work experience

Excellent problem solving and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Masters and/or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science

1+ years experience in HW architecture/design with emphasis on areas listed above

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 system level modeling (performance and/or power)

C/C++ programming

Keywords :Camera, ISP, display, composition, rendering, video coding, computer vision, embedded, multimedia, image, algorithms, SOC architecture, micro-architecture



Educational Requirements

Required:Bachelors, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

Preferred:Masters / 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.

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