Staff Systems Software Engineer – Sensors

Qualcomm•Santa Clara, CA

1d•$167,000 - $250,600

About The Position

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. All Qualcomm employees are expected to actively support diversity on their teams, and in the Company.

Requirements

proficiency in C
familiarity with Python and MATLAB
the ability to implement MATLAB-coded algorithms in C
familiarity with RTOS and multi-threaded programming environments.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Nice To Haves

Multi-threaded programming experience.
Familiarity with hardware architectures such as CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs.
Hands-on experience on ML frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow,
Experience with fixed point implementation and the use of quantization for ML models.
Detail oriented, taking a thorough and analytical approach, producing complete documentation.
Experience with RTOS and modifying device drivers.
Basic understanding of linear algebra, probability & statistics.
Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
Strong technical leadership and coaching skills.

Responsibilities

Coding in C and C++, ideally in new modern C++ standards, and unit testing and system testing using modern testing frameworks like Google Test.
Implement sensor signal processing and machine learning algorithms across various embedded SOCs.
Debug, verify, optimize, and tune C code for MATLAB/Python signal processing and machine learning algorithms.
Architecting software frameworks and modules on a variety of cores like CPU, embedded MCU, and GPU.
Making effective engineering tradeoffs between performance, memory, power consumption, and computational complexity.
Creating reports on algorithm evaluation results and delivering complete design and user documentation.
Programming in one interpreted language (Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.).
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