XR Systems Technology Architect - All Levels

Qualcomm's XR Systems team is seeking system architects who will work on defining the next generation SoC architectures, enabling the future of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality applications. Responsibilities of successful candidates may span one or more of the following areas:

• Working with lead XR OEMs and QCs customer-facing teams to understand end to end use cases
• Researching the product family roadmap to align internal IP and SoC architecture roadmap
• Collaborating with colleagues in the architecture team and across technology, IP and SoC teams with diverse expertise
• Exploring architectures for power efficient and performant mapping of use cases on future SoCs and coming up with architecture proposals
• Defining and optimizing use case data flows
• Use case power modeling, estimation and optimization
• Working with SoC design, and validation teams to ensure that the use case power and performance KPIs are met.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, and project experience in architecture/micro-architecture
• Experience (2 to 15 years) in areas covering at least one of the following: IP and SOC design, DV, micro architecture, architecture, camera, video, GPU, DSP, NSP, CPU, security, NOCs and DRAM controller subsystems, power architecture and power and performance estimation and optimization.
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters and/or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science
• Experience with Mixed & Augmented reality system design, constraints, and trade-offs
• Deep understanding of system architecture aspects such as NOCs, DRAM controller performance issues, power domains and sleep modes of memories, IPs and cores.
• Proven experience in conducting architectural trade-offs, power/performance analysis and/or SW-HW trade-offs
• Experience with system level modeling (performance and/or power)
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as python, perl, shell etc.