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Qualcomm Staff Systems Software Engineer – Sensors in Santa Clara, California

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems

General Summary:

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:

  • Leading a team of engineers, including mentoring and coaching junior engineers.

  • Tracking project schedules and deliverables, and keeping stakeholders informed

  • Working with global systems and software teams.

  • Architecting software frameworks & module implementations on variety of cores like GPU, CPU, embedded MCU cores experience.

  • Coding in C & C++ as its main programming language, ideally in new modern C++ standards (C++17/20) and unit testing and system testing using modern testing frameworks like Google Test.

  • Coding in embedded software development in C/C++ for fixed & floating-point based designs, implementing system algorithms, performance testing, debugging, verifying, optimizing, and tuning the implementations.

  • Programming in one interpreted language (Python, Perl, Ruby).

  • Familiarity with SOC architecture to be able to design, develop modeling tools.

  • Making effective engineering tradeoffs between performance, memory, power consumption, and computational complexity.

  • Guide the team on development of system applications and tools in C++, both internal and customer oriented. Programming experience in Java is a plus.

  • Creating reports on algorithm evaluation results and delivering complete design and user documentation.

  • New technology demonstrations, interfacing with customers and sensor vendors as well as partnering with internal and external teams.

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 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.

*Works in the lab, can use hazardous chemicals (e.g., glue, machinery).

Preferred Qualifications

4+ years of experience in the following areas:

  • Hands on experience in house application tool development such as C++ QT Creator, C# WinForms or similar.

  • Hands-on experience on ML frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow

  • Experience implementing basic machine learning algorithms such as SVM’s, neural nets, etc. in C.

  • The ability to implement MATLAB-coded algorithms in C, including both floating and fixed-point implementations.

  • Embedded/Mobile programming with experience in optimization of algorithms to support low power and/or low memory footprint.

  • Multi-threaded programming experience.

  • Experience with the development of compilers or interpreters and LLVM is a plus.

  • Detail oriented, taking a thorough and analytical approach, producing complete documentation.

  • Experience with ARM, RTOS, and JTAG.

  • Experience with modifying device drivers.

  • Experience with test development, troubleshooting and problem resolution on embedded software platforms.

  • Basic understanding of Linear algebra, probability & statistics .

  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

  • Strong analytical skills and ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced team environment.

  • Strong technical leadership and coaching skills.

Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm’s toll-free number found here (https://qualcomm.service-now.com/hrpublic?id=hr_public_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0039028) for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

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Pay range:

$156,500.00 - $234,500.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer!

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers (http://www.qualcomm.com/contact/corporate) .

EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification

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