XR Systems Technology Architect

Job Summary

Qualcomm is a key enabler for the XR eco-system with a dominant market share. We build custom SoCs and technologies that are at the heart of existing and emerging XR products. Qualcomm XR Systems organization is responsible for architecture definition of Qualcomm's next generation XR SoCs. Our portfolio of SoC offerings serve a broad range of XR products covering Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality and AI Glass product families. The span of technologies that go into these products and SoCs include high resolution immersive displays, perception features that are built on computer vision and deep learning technology, highly efficient DSP processors, dedicated deep learning accelerators, graphics engines supporting high resolution and high frame rate rendering and reprojection, multimedia processing engines (audio, video, imaging,..), CPUs and SoC infrastructure that ensures efficient and secure processing, as well as very low power architecture features such as power islands and power rail isolation, sleep modes etc.

We are scaling up our operations! We are looking for engineers with background in diverse areas including architecture and micro architecture definition, design and verification of IPs and SoCs. People who have experience in areas such as SoC architecture, networks on chip, virtual memory, on-chip and off-chip memory subsystems, security architecture, CPUs, etc, also development of IPs such as camera, video, GPU, DSPs, deep learning accelerators and neural signal processors (NSP), peripherals and interfaces such as PICe, SPI etc. Also, people with strong background on pre silicon and post silicon power estimation and optimization, performance estimation, power architecture design will be highly encouraged. We have openings at senior as well as junior job levels.

We are keenly interested in you if you are someone who has gained expertise in your specific domain which could be one or more of the areas mentioned above and are excited to take the next step in your career to become architects of the SoCs that will shape the future generations of XR products!! Apart from a rewarding career and growth prospects, the organization offers a unique opportunity to learn from a diverse set of experts working collaboratively under the same roof, towards a common goal.

Job Overview

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.

Keywords

Camera, GPU, CPU, SOC, SoC architecture, NOC, DDR subsystem, LPDDR IP, caches, security, virtual memory, development, RTL design, Computer vision, Artificial Intelligence, ML, DSP, AR, VR, MR, XR