Software Performance Optimization Expert - XR Research (all levels)

General Summary:

Job Overview:

Qualcomm XR Research India is rapidly expanding to offer state-of-the-art XR solutions. To scale and strengthen our offering in this domain, we are seeking candidates with strong software development and performance optimization expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with functional teams to understand the algorithms and software implementations, analyze and identify performance issues and bottlenecks, come up with plans to optimize the overall performance of software deliverables.
• Implement, port and optimize algorithms related to XR technologies including perception, computer vision, image processing, on Qualcomms platforms. The focus is on the usage of SIMD techniques such as ARM Neon and Qualcomm HVX, tiling, unrolling, prefetching, maximizing cache utilization, optimal multithreading, handling float & fixed-point conversions, and with compute & memory constraints.
• Generate test vectors and validate the optimized software for bit exactness against original software implementation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 3 to 14 years of extensive software development and performance optimization experience with a bachelors or masters degree in computer science, electrical engineering, information systems, or a related field.
• Demonstrated expertise in software performance evaluation and optimizations using SIMD techniques such as Qualcomm-HVX/ARM-Neon/x86-SSE, Halide, CUDA, optimal tiling, unrolling, prefetching, and/or multithreading.
• Strong knowledge of operating systems, multicore architecture, CPU/DSP architecture.
• Excellent analytical & communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fundamental understanding of signal processing and image/video/computer-vision algorithms.
• Prior experience with Qualcomm HVX and Qualcomm DSP/CPU architecture.
• Proficiency in C++ software design and development for multi-core architectures (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications: