Multimedia Architect

Qualcomm•Tempe, AZ

4d•$190,800 - $286,200•Onsite

About The Position

Designs and develops technologies related to the generation or manipulation of content targeted at the human senses or machine perception. These technologies include speech, audio, imaging, computer vision, display, sensing, biometrics, and augmented/virtual reality. Analyzes use cases related to multimedia technologies and performs functional decomposition to drive requirements for implementation into hardware or software. Performs system analysis and uses simulation modeling to propose algorithmic or system modifications that enable optimization of performance and power.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
Works in the lab, can use hazardous chemicals (e.g., glue, machinery).

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
10+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
2+ years of experience working in one or more multimedia technology areas (i.e., speech, audio, imaging, computer vision, display, sensing, biometrics, augmented/virtual reality).

Responsibilities

Serves as a technical expert in identifying patterns of issues in systems-level software and hardware design and implications for work across teams; provides support to multiple teams to address issues and generate solutions; creates well-defined architectures that meet ambiguous requirements and/or have a financial impact.
Advises multiple teams in design reviews to facilitate platform development; drives evaluation of total system performance based on constraints and/or capabilities to support design integrity.
Takes ambiguous requirements, business requirements, and aligns cross-functional efforts to ensure internal and/or external customer requirements are gathered and agreed upon; communicates a technical vision for guiding multiple teams to design products and solutions.
Acts as a technical lead and owns complete testing for software and hardware performance and quality; supports multiple teams through testing, data analytics, and validation of design; defines specifications for software and hardware; works with leaders to guide architectural decisions related to multimedia systems-level software, hardware, and/or products.
Ensures appropriate tools are being used and supported across multiple teams; acts as an expert in identifying patterns of issues and implications for work; supports multiple teams to address issues.
Serves as a technical expert when leading teams by translating strategic goals and roadmaps into smaller projects and desired features; uses deep and broad technical understanding to review the team's new algorithms, provide implications for work across teams, and triage complex technical issues by generating new solutions and involving others; decide how solutions would be partitioned on the SOC level.
Serves as a technical expert and provides support to teams on data engineering or data management issues for machine learning solutions within a domain.
Acts as a technical lead for teams developing machine learning solutions; reviews and helps write proposals or roadmaps for complex products; consults with staff engineers to ensure they understand development requirements for products.
Provides technical expertise to others within the team regarding experiments to train and evaluate machine learning solutions and communicates progress to key stakeholders.
Evaluates topologies against performance, and cost variables and uses the feasibility findings to review the high-level design for multiple products, product families, or technologies; provides guidance, direction, and decision making; presents the analysis and the recommended route/topology that should be used to maximize performance, quality, and costs while reducing risks to the schedule and implementation.
Acts as a technical expert to others on industry trends, competitors' products, and advances in various engineering fields related to multimedia systems products and technology; reviews technical articles and publications; shares solutions and seeks best practices from open-source community; shares expertise within and/or across teams.
Leverages deep technical expertise to identify trends and define future solutions by contributing to discussions on the short- and long-term strategic direction of the product/technology roadmaps.
Leads technical conversations; resolves cross functional design and technical issues related to technical area of expertise; sets expectations and is an example for teams in documenting technical and/or overall system issues; participates in patent application reviews.