Engineer- Audio Architecture and Systems Engineer

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited in Hyderabad seeks an experienced Audio Systems Engineer to contribute to architecture and design of audio system solutions and hardware blocks for Snapdragon platforms across mobile, XR, Compute and IoT.

You will focus on hardware-aware system design, data-path definition, interface integration, and performance optimization, with strong emphasis on digital hardware concepts and DSP blocks.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of digital hardware design concepts and audio hardware architectures.
• Experience with audio hardware blocks (VAD, DSP, filters) and related DSP hardware.
• Solid knowledge of DSP fundamentals and fixed-point arithmetic.
• Experience with embedded systems, hardware-software interfaces, and real-time audio data paths on DSP architectures.
• Proficiency in C/C++, Python, MATLAB.

Responsibilities

• Define and support design of audio hardware, software, data paths, codecs and processing blocks.
• Analyze trade-offs in power, performance, latency, memory and audio quality.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Systems and Software teams to translate requirements into specs.
• Support interface definition, control flows and power-state transitions for low-power solutions.
• Validate audio blocks and end-to-end use cases via simulation, lab measurements, and post-silicon debugging.
• Document architecture decisions, interface requirements, validation plans and findings.

Skills

Digital hardware design

Audio hardware architectures

DSP fundamentals

Fixed-point arithmetic

Embedded systems

C/C++

Python

MATLAB

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Electronics/Electrical/Communications/Computer Engineering

Bachelor's in Engineering/Information Systems/CS

Job description

Company

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

General Summary

Join Qualcomm's Multimedia Audio Systems Group to contribute to the architecture, design of audio system solutions and audio hardware blocks. The role focuses on hardware-aware system design, data-path definition, interface integration, and performance optimization for next-generation Snapdragon platforms across mobile, XR, Compute and IoT applications. Strong understanding of Audio hardware architecture

Key Responsibilities

• Define and support the design of audio hardware, software, audio data paths, audio codecs and associated processing blocks.
• Analyze hardware and system trade-offs across power, performance, latency, memory, precision, and audio quality.
• Work with Architecture, Systems and Software teams to translate product requirements into hardware specifications and implementation requirements.
• Support hardware-software interface definition, control flows and power-state transitions to design low power solutions
• Validate Audio blocks and end-to-end audio use cases through simulation, emulation, lab measurements, and post-silicon debugging.
• Document architecture, design decisions, interface requirements, validation plans, and technical findings.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of digital hardware design concepts and audio hardware architectures.
• Experience with audio hardware, audio blocks such as VAD, digital filters, interpolation, decimation, sample-rate conversion, or related DSP hardware.
• Good understanding of digital signal-processing fundamentals
• Experience analyzing hardware constraints and trade-offs involving power, performance, latency, memory, clocking, and precision.
• Understanding of fixed-point arithmetic, quantization, rounding, saturation, and bit-accurate modelling.
• Familiarity with embedded systems, hardware-software interfaces, and real-time audio data paths on any DSP architecture HiFi/Hexagon/ARM/MCU
• Programming in C/C++, Python, MATLAB

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of digital interfaces such as SoundWire and SDCA interfaces is a plus.
• Familiarity with audio codec design, DAC/ADC signal paths, and low-power design is a plus.
• Exposure to Qualcomm audio architectures, frameworks, SDKs, or development tools is a plus.

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's or PhD in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Communications, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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