XR Systems Architect

Qualcomm's XR Technology Systems team is seeking motivated engineers who will work on driving next generation technologies & platforms enabling the future of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality applications. This team interfaces with product management, platform architecture, technology/IP and software implementation leads.

The successful candidate will be responsible for one or more of the following roles:

• Driving technical workstreams across key technology tracks (perception, rendering, composition, reprojection, split-processing, user input interfaces, camera & display processing).
• Identifying opportunities for prototyping, demonstrating system level trade-offs, and helping define feature goodness criteria from end use case perspective.
• Collaborating with technology experts to drive strategic direction in cross-functional AR/MR/VR areas.
• Working with technology, hardware, and software experts to translate use-case requirements into implementation specifications and contributing to reference design planning.
• Engaging on identifying and scoping new use-cases.
• Early engagement with customers and aligning with product management on platform requirements.
• Working with technology tracks to drive system level what-ifs/trade-offs and helping with competitive analysis.

For this multi-disciplinary role, an ideal candidate has experience in AR/VR, computer vision, perception, camera technology, hardware design, SoC architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and/or system modeling (power, performance, thermal).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, and project experience in architecture/micro-architecture
• 1+ years of system engineering or related work experience
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's and/or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science
• 1+ years experience in HW architecture/design with emphasis on areas listed above
• Proven experience in conducting architectural trade-offs, power/performance analysis and/or SW-HW trade-offs
• Extensive knowledge of graphics pipeline, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines
• Experience with system level modeling (performance and/or power)
• C/C++ programming

Keywords: Camera, ISP, display, composition, rendering, video coding, computer vision, embedded, multimedia, image, algorithms, SOC architecture, micro-architecture

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application/hiring process.