Wearables Project Engineer

Qualcomm•San Diego, CA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role can be based in San Diego or Santa Clara, CA. Frequent travel to San Diego or Santa Clara to engage in technical discussions and customers meetings will be required. The role involves working closely with a cross-functional team to understand Wearables use case requirements, dataflows, and HW/SW partitioning. It also requires early engagement with customers and aligning with product management on platform requirements. The engineer will leverage expert software knowledge to implement and oversee the design, development, creation, modification, and validation of embedded software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs. Responsibilities include overseeing the resolution of design, coding, and other technical issues by presenting end-to-end solutions, and overseeing code reviews, regression tests, and issue triage to ensure code quality. The role also involves deploying state-of-the-art wearables algorithms and features into commercial wearables products and developing production code and system architectures with excellent design quality.

Requirements

Expertise with modern C++, and with writing reliable, maintainable, and idiomatic code
Experience with multi-core programming on heterogenous mobile architectures (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, tensor accelerators, System-on-a-Chip, embedded systems etc.)
Strong skills in analyzing performance, testing, and debugging on these systems
Solid experience with established software development processes (CI/CD, testing, code reviews, etc.)
Outstanding problem-solving skills
Excellent communication and team working skills
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
3+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Nice To Haves

Master's Degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
12+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
3+ years of experience with Database Management Software.
3+ years of experience with API.
2+ years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.
1+ year of work experience with Git, Perforce, or Source Code Management System.

Responsibilities

Work closely with a cross functional team to understand Wearables use case requirements, dataflows, and HW/SW partitioning
Work closely with technology, hardware, and software experts to translate use-case requirements into implementation specifications and contributing to SW Design
Early engagement with customers and works on aligning with product management on platform requirements.
Leverage expert software knowledge and experience to implement and oversee the design, development, creation, modification, and validation of embedded software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.
Oversee the resolution of design, coding, and other technical issues by presenting end-to-end solutions.
Oversee code reviews, regression tests, and the triage of issues to ensure the quality of code.
Deploy state-of-the-art wearables algorithms and features into commercial wearables products
Develop production code and system architectures with excellent design quality