XR Systems Technology Architect (2 - 10 years)

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:

• Identifying, understanding and documenting use cases and implementations of AR/VR and related technologies
• Leading technology, hardware and software experts to translate use case requirements into implementation specifications
• Driving technical workstreams for perception, reprojection and split-processing, including quality validation, latency/quality trade-offs etc.
• Driving technical workstreams for sensor/display advancements, interface optimizations, reference design scoping for XR feature prototyping
• System level use case modeling to validate and optimize architecture definition
• Defining requirements for custom hardware accelerators and general purpose compute cores for XR features/flows & workloads
• Defining and executing HW-SW feature analysis to optimize for power and performance

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, and project experience in architecture/micro-architecture
• 2 to 10 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
• 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-HW trade-offs
• Experience with system level modeling (performance and/or power)
• 2 - 10 years experience in one or more of above areas
• C/C++ programming