System Architecture and Modeling Engineer

Overview

Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems

Job Overview:

Qualcomm is a company of inventors that unlocked 5G ushering in an age of rapid acceleration in connectivity and new possibilities that will transform industries, create jobs, and enrich lives. But this is just the beginning. It takes inventive minds with diverse skills, backgrounds, and cultures to transform 5Gs potential into world-changing technologies and products. This is the Invention Age – and this is where you come in.

GENERAL SUMMARY

Qualcomm provides complete chipset solution that includes CPU, Modem, Application Processor, Multi-media engines, Interconnect and more. Power and performance are a key area that drive the value of our chips. As fabrication technology node shrinks, and performance requirement become higher, it is crucial to provide power and performance optimized solutions, which is the responsibility of the group that you will be working in. Multimedia systems team has an exciting opportunity to work on best-in-class technologies of Camera, Video encoding/decoding, and Computer Vision. These technologies are the heart of billions of Snapdragon devices across the globe. The team is responsible for system level power architecture; and power analysis, budgeting and optimization of all multimedia use cases. We are looking for a fresh grad or Senior level Engineer with educational background and/or experience in modeling and analysis of system level architecture. Your work will have the potential to shape the most power and performance efficient devices in the hands of millions of Snapdragon users.

Key responsibilities:

+ Develop system models of next generation multimedia platforms for mobile devices to analyze different architectural options for power, performance and cost trade offs

+ Analyze power for selected use-cases using the system models for multiple architectural options

+ Work with architecture team to come up with most efficient multimedia system architecture to satisfy power, performance and cost requirements

+ Follow up through the execution of the chip to make sure goals are met and validate modeling assumptions

Minimum Requirements:

+ Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

+ Course work or 1+ years experience working on systems analysis and modeling using various modeling tools at a detailed level

+ Course work and/or 1+ years experience with system level aspects of low power design with the ability to model and analyze power and performance at system level

+ Experience with C++ and Python while having expertise in one of the two

Preferred Requirements:

+ Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

+ Course work and/or 1+ years of experience working on computer architecture, algorithms and programming

+ Course and/or experience in one or more areas of camera/image processing, video compression, computer vision

+ Expertise in C++ and Python

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors – Computer Science, Bachelors – Engineering, Bachelors – Information Systems

Work Experiences:

Certifications:

Skills:

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

Masters – Computer Science, Masters – Electrical Engineering

Work Experiences:

1+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience. ,2+ years experience working in one or more multimedia technology areas (i.e., speech, audio, imaging, computer vision, display, sensing, biometrics, augmented/virtual reality).

Certifications:

Skills:

ARM Architectures, Audio Processing, C++ Programming Language, Multimedia Systems, Video Coding

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