Qualcomm XR Systems organization is responsible for system architecture and system software design for Qualcomm s XR chipset platforms We are scaling up our operations and we are looking for engineers experienced in systems architecture who will work on driving the next generation XR technologies and architectures, enabling the future of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality applications Responsibilities include working with lead XR OEMs and QCs customer-facing teams to understand end to end use cases, mapping them on to existing architectures, defining and optimizing data flows, working with SoC design, dv, firmware, and validation teams and ensuring use case power and performance KPIs are met The team is also responsible for providing guidance towards future XR SoC roadmap definitions XR technology encompasses a broad range of features covering XR perception, local and remote rendering, camera, video, computer vision, communications and split compute topologies such as phone + glass and PC + HMD + cloud etc The successful candidate willbe responsible for(one or more ofthe following): Identifying,understandingand documenting use cases and implementations of AR/VR and related technologies Leading technology, hardwareand software experts to translate use case requirements into implementationspecifications Driving technical workstreams for perception, reprojectionandsplit-processing, including quality validation, latency/quality trade-offs etc Driving technical workstreamsfor sensor/displayadvancements, interface optimizations, reference designscoping for XR feature prototyping System level use case modeling to validateand optimize architecturedefinition Defining requirements for custom hardware accelerators andgeneral purposecompute cores for XR features/flows& workloads Defining and executing HW-SW feature analysis to optimizefor power andperformance For this multi-disciplinary rolean ideal candidate has provenexpertisein AR/VR, computer vision, machine learning, perception, camera technology, hardware design, SoC architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and/or system modeling (power, performance, thermal). Minimum Qualifications bachelorsdegree inElectricalEngineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, and project experienceinarchitecture/micro-architecture 7+ years of system engineering or related work experience Excellent problem solving and communicationskills Preferred Qualifications masters and/or PhD degree inElectrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science Experience with Mixed & Augmented reality system design,constraints,and trade-offs Extensive knowledge of graphics pipeline,reprojection and advanced rendering techniques,computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines Proven experience in conducting architectural trade-offs, power/performance analysis and/or SW-HWtrade-offs Experience with system level modeling (performance and/or power) 7+years experienceinone or more of above areas C/C++ programming Educational Requirements Required:bachelors, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience Preferred:masters /Doctorate, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering Keywords Camera, GPU, CPU, SOC, System engineering, Hardware designing, Computer vision, Artificial Intelligence, ML, DSP, AR, VR, MR, XR Minimum Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience. OR Masters degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
