Senior Lead Engineer – NSP/NPU System Software

Qualcomm; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited in Bengaluru seeks candidates for its NSP System software team within the Central Software Engineering group. You will develop and maintain system software for NSP accelerators on Qualcomm SoCs, focusing on performance, latency, power, and stability across embedded platforms for mobile, auto, IoT, XR, and AI workloads.

The role requires strong C/C++, Python, and system programming skills, with experience in Android/Embedded Linux or QNX.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level or higher in engineering or CS with relevant software experience.
• Strong C/C++ and Python programming on Android/Embedded Linux/ QNX.
• Experience in system programming, threading, synchronization, and IPCs.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design and develop software frameworks across SoC processors.
• Develop high-performance system drivers for compute resources.
• Identify performance optimization areas for software and hardware.
• Integrate, test, and support embedded software solutions with global teams.
• Occasional offsite/on-site work with OEMs and ISVs.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Embedded Linux

System programming

Multithreading

OpenCL/CUDA

DSP/NSP architectures

Inter-processor communication (RPCs)

Git / GitHub / GitLab / Perforce

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Master’s degree in Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science

Tools

CMake

Make

ninja

Yocto

Git

GitHub

GitLab

Perforce

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm’s Central Software Engineering (CSE) team is seeking candidates for its Neural Signal Processor (NSP) System software team in Bangalore. We are seeking candidates with strong system software knowledge and hands‑on experience in development, integrate, commercialize and maintenance of system software for CPU, NSP processors and Hardware engines/accelerators comprising in Qualcomm SoCs that meets specified performance, latency, power, robustness, and stability metrics. In this role you will utilize your solid foundation in embedded system software development, operating systems, and device drivers to deploy platform software for complex Multimedia and Deep Learning use cases running on Qualcomm SoCs. Partnering with hardware architecture, platform software, Multimedia, and developer tools teams, you will drive the architecture, design, and development of system software to use SoCs extensive heterogeneous computing capabilities to allow running of compute workloads on device without a need for connection to the cloud for Mobile, Auto, IoT, XR and/or AI inferencing Qualcomm SOCs platforms.

Responsibilities may Include, but are not limited to,

The selected candidate will have responsibilities in one or more of the following areas:

• Architect, design and develop software frameworks across the processors available on the SoCs.
• Develop high‑performance system drivers for compute resources.
• Identify areas of performance optimization in the SoC for both Software and Hardware architectures.
• Work closely with our global team to integrate, test, and commercially support our embedded software solutions.
• Offsite and occasional onsite work with OEMs and Independent Software Vendors may be required.

Required Skills/Experience

• Strong programming skills in C/C++, and Python.
• 4+ years of experience in writing scalable C/C++ multi‑threaded, multi‑process software applications for Android/Embedded Linux/ QNX operating systems.
• Experience in system programming, threading, mutex, synchronization, communication, and parallel computing to build highly scalable and efficient applications.
• Deep understanding of CPU, DSP, Deep Learning Accelerators (NSP/NPU) architectures, system programming and optimization of Multimedia/ML algorithms on hardware acceleration cores using C/C++, assembly language, OpenCL/CUDA programming frameworks.
• Experience with ARM and NSP/Hardware engines Inter‑processor communications using RPCs.
• Familiarity and hands‑on experience with various system analysis tools used for memory, performance and hardware resource management for optimization and stability.
• Experience with build systems such as CMake, Make, ninja and Yocto for large scale software.
• Familiarity with source control tools (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Perforce, etc.).
• Experience in writing documents on software design, algorithms, and interfaces.

Education Requirements

• Required: Bachelor’s, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science, software engineering or closely related discipline with 6-8yrs of relevant work experience.
• Preferred: Master’s, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science, software engineering or closely related discipline with minimum 6yrs of relevant work experience.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

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.

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