XR Software Senior Engineer

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,700,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm India Private Limited in Bengaluru seeks an XR Technology Software Engineer to design, develop, and integrate AR/VR software platforms across embedded and cloud edge environments.

You will work with cross-functional teams to translate AR/VR use cases into scalable software, leveraging C++ and modern architectures, GPUs, DSPs, and multi-core systems.

The role emphasizes production code, clean design, and collaboration to deliver next-generation XR experiences.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering or computer science or related field required.
• Experience with AR/VR and computer vision is advantageous.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Work with cross-functional teams to understand AR/VR requirements and translate them into software designs.
• Develop and validate embedded and cloud edge software and applications.
• Deploy computer vision algorithms and maintain code quality through reviews and tests.
• Produce robust, scalable production code and system architectures.
• Collaborate on software/hardware trade-offs and performance analyses.

Skills

C++ (11-20)

Multi-core programming

Computer vision

Python

Embedded systems

Android

Linux

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/IS/CS or related

Master's degree in Engineering/IS/CS or related

PhD in Engineering/IS/CS or related

Tools

Android

Linux

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

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.

Principal Duties And 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

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2-10+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience. OR Master’s degree in engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1-9+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 8 to 12 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

Minimum Qualifications

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

OR

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

OR

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

OR

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

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