Multimedia Project Engineering Lead

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 228,400 - 342,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive annual discretionary bonus program

Annual RSU grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Qualcomm is seeking a skilled Systems Engineer in San Diego to design and develop innovative technologies for multimedia systems. The role demands at least 8 years of experience in Systems Engineering and expertise in multimedia technology areas like imaging and audio.

The ideal candidate will lead cross-functional teams, gather customer requirements, and optimize solutions to meet technical and business objectives.

A competitive pay range of $228,400.00 - $342,600.00 indicates the value placed on this role.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• Experience in multimedia technology areas (i.e., speech, audio, imaging).

Responsibilities

• Align multiple teams to generate solutions and define architectures.
• Lead cross-functional efforts to gather and agree on customer requirements.
• Evaluate topologies against performance and cost variables.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Multimedia technology expertise

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering or related field

Master's in Engineering or related field

PhD in Engineering or related field

Job description

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems

General Summary

Designs and develops technologies related to the generation or manipulation of content targeted at the human senses or machine perception. These technologies include speech, audio, imaging, computer vision, display, sensing, biometrics, and augmented/virtual reality. Analyzes use cases related to multimedia technologies and performs functional decomposition to drive requirements for implementation into hardware or software. Performs system analysis and uses simulation modeling to propose algorithmic or system modifications that enable optimization of performance and power.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 11+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of experience working in one or more multimedia technology areas (i.e., speech, audio, imaging, computer vision, display, sensing, biometrics, augmented/virtual reality).

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Aligns multiple teams to address issues and generate solutions; creates well-defined architectures that meet ambiguous requirements and/or have a financial impact; works with multiple engineering teams across the systems department on design, development, modification, and evaluation of systems-level software and hardware.
• Executes on design reviews; uses industry expertise to drive platform development and system performance; reinforces design integrity based on constraints and/or capabilities.
• Leads cross-functional efforts to ensure customer requirements are gathered and agreed upon; communicates a technical vision for guiding the department to design products and solutions.
• Oversees technical vision for testing; guides multiple teams through tests, data analysis, and validation of design in alignment with product/technology roadmap; provides oversight on architectural decisions related to multimedia systems-level software, hardware, and/or products across multiple teams.
• Educates multiple teams on using appropriate tools and analyses; provides guidance to address patterns of issues and implications for work; coordinates multiple teams to address issues.
• Shares the strategy and goals for solutions; reviews escalated algorithm issues to provide direction, coaching, training, connection with other teams, and additional resources; uses deep and broad technical understanding to review advanced/contextual algorithms, provide implications for work across teams, and triage complex technical issues by generating new solutions and involving others; decide how solutions would be partitioned on the SOC level.
• Oversees and provides support to teams handling complex data engineering or data management issues for machine learning solutions within a domain.
• Reviews proposals or roadmaps of various levels of complexity for machine learning solutions; coordinates objectives across multiple teams working on design-related tasks for product proposals within the same department.
• Provides technical expertise to others within the team regarding experiments to train and evaluate machine learning solutions and communicates progress to key stakeholders.
• Evaluates topologies against performance, and cost variables and uses the feasibility findings to review the high-level design for multiple products, product families, or technologies; provides guidance, direction, and decision making; reviews the analysis and recommends complex route/topology that should be used to maximize performance, quality, and costs while reducing risks to the schedule and implementation.
• Acts as an expert resource to others on industry trends, competitors' products, and advances in various engineering fields related to multimedia systems products and technology; writes technical articles and publications; shares solutions and reviews best practices from open-source community; shares expertise within and/or across the department.
• Leverages deep technical expertise across domains to identify trends and define future solutions by contributing to discussions on the short- and long-term strategic direction of the product/technology roadmaps.
• Reinforces technical conversations across the department; resolves design and technical issues related to technical area of expertise; supports multiple teams in documenting technical and/or overall system issues; participates in patent application reviews.

Level of Responsibility

• Working independently with no supervision.
• Providing supervision to other supervisors/managers who may be direct reports.
• Making decisions that are significant in impact, influencing overall program or project success, finances, and/or the ability to meet objectives; errors are not readily apparent due to the complexity of work process/product or time between decisions and results; errors typically result in significant expenditure of time, resources, and funds to correct.
• Using verbal and written communication skills to convey complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels. Role may require strong negotiation and influence, communication to large groups or high-level constituents.
• Overall responsibility to ensure budgets, schedules, and performance standards for functional areas and organization are realistically set and attained.
• Having influence over the formulation and achievement of long-term business plans and objectives.
• Completing tasks that require multiple steps that can be performed in various orders; tasks require simultaneously executing multiple cognitive abilities and maintaining information in short- or long-term memory.
• Regularly determining what needs to be done and is involved with sharing innovative solutions to achieve broad policies and objectives.
• Working on abstract problems in unique situations that require intricate analysis, and evaluation of ambiguous factors; directing the resolution of highly complex, unusual, or abstract business problems across functional or organization lines; thoroughly analyzing intangible variables, identifies, and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas.
• Developing and redesigning organizational strategies and providing overall direction for various functional areas and/or entire organization. Has influence over the formulation and achievement of long-term business plans and objectives.

EEO Employer

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Pay Range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$228,400.00 - $342,600.00. The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales‑incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.