XR Software Engineer (All Levels - Multiple Positions)

Qualcomm · Bengaluru

  • Experience10–15 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeonsite
  • Posted23 Sept 2026

About Qualcomm

Qualcomm is hiring in Bengaluru in semiconductors electronics. This role looks for around 10+ years of experience.

Skills

  • C++
  • computer vision
  • embedded systems
  • multi-core programming
  • computer vision pipelines
  • graphics pipelines
  • software architecture

The role

An embedded software engineer at a semiconductor technology company designs XR systems for augmented, virtual, and mixed reality applications, deploying computer vision and writing modern C++ for heterogeneous embedded architectures. The role also applies machine learning methods and Python programming to production software.

Full job description

Job Summary

Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next generation experiences in area of integrated chipsets that power advanced mobile devices, XR/IoT/Automotive compute platforms. As a Qualcomm's XR Technology Software Engineer you will design, develop, create, modify next generation technologies platforms enabling the future of Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality / Mixed Reality applications.

Responsibilities

Work closely with a cross functional team to understand AR/VR use case requirements, dataflows, and HW/SW partitioning

Work closely with technology, hardware, and software experts to translate use-case requirements into implementation specifications and contributing to SW Design

Leverage expert software knowledge and experience to implement and oversee the design, development, creation, modification, and validation of embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs.

Oversee the resolution of design, coding, and other technical issues by presenting end-to-end solutions.

Oversee code reviews, regression tests, and the triage of issues to ensure the quality of code.

Deploy state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms and features into commercial XR products

Develop production code and system architectures with excellent design quality

Expertise with modern C++ (11-20), and with writing reliable, maintainable, and idiomatic code

Experience with multi-core programming on heterogenous mobile architectures (CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, tensor accelerators, System-on-a-Chip, embedded systems etc.)

Outstanding problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and team working skills

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelors degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2-10+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Masters degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1-9+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Masters degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

2 to 10 years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Experience with Augmented/Virtual Reality and general computer vision enabling technologies and devices

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 embedded platforms such as Android, Linux

Experience with Python programming

Good knowledge of graphics pipeline, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines

Additional Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.