Staff XR Systems Engineer

Qualcomm • San Diego, CA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Multimodal perception and reasoning is shaping the recent advances in eXtended Reality systems. Qualcomm's XR Labs team is seeking a skilled C++ Computer Vision engineer to evaluate, prototype, and optimize advanced algorithms for XR use cases. An ideal candidate will be responsible for researching, evaluating and porting the select algorithms to a highly optimized C++ implementation and deploying them on our chipsets. The job will involve interfacing with HW, FW, and SW engineers as power-efficient implementation is being further optimized and integrated into our XR framework.

Requirements

• 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.
• Strong performance in modern C++ programming with a focus on performance (5+ years of experience)
• Extensive expertise in machine learning with focus on Computer Vision; knowledge of and hands-on experience with relevant Python packages (5+ years)
• Experience developing embedded systems software and solutions (1+ years)

Nice To Haves

• experience with embedded audio processing and workloads
• experience developing distributed compute software and solutions
• experience developing on Android

Responsibilities

• Evaluate published algorithms related to XR use cases, with an intimate understanding of performance/ requirements tradeoffs.
• Port candidate pipelines to an optimized C++ implementation.
• Help integrate implementation into an existing XR framework, benchmarking the resulting performance on target SoCs.
• Contribute to the development of tools and workflows for efficient integration and testing
• Document optimized design and the fit in the E2E system.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees