Principal System Lead: Multimedia & Power‑Efficient Mobile

QUALCOMM, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 217,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

RSU grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA seeks a Principal-level System Lead to define and optimize next-generation mobile system solutions.

You will work closely with OEMs and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into architectures using Qualcomm’s mobile SoCs and software platforms. You will focus on multimedia subsystems like camera, video, graphics, and display within Android, aiming to improve power efficiency and sustained performance in real-world deployments and low-power

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years in Electrical/CS/Engineering or related field.
• Master's degree and 7+ years in Electrical/CS/Engineering or related field.
• PhD and 6+ years in Electrical/CS/Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in semiconductor product development.
• 5+ years in a technical leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Analyze OEM use cases across camera, video encode/decode, display pipelines, graphics, gaming, and always-on multimedia scenarios.
• Propose system-level architectural improvements for next-generation product planning with focus on power-aware multimedia processing.
• Perform hands-on trade-off analysis across power, performance, latency, thermal limits, and memory bandwidth.
• Influence architectural decisions across multimedia pipelines, compute subsystems, memory hierarchies, and power management.

Skills

System architecture

Technical leadership

Multimedia systems

Trade-off analysis

End-to-end problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA seeks a Principal-level System Lead to define and optimize next-generation mobile system solutions.

You will work closely with OEMs and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into architectures using Qualcomm’s mobile SoCs and software platforms. You will focus on multimedia subsystems like camera, video, graphics, and display within Android, aiming to improve power efficiency and sustained performance in real-world deployments and low-power