Sensors Systems Engineer

QUALCOMM, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual RSU grants

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a talented engineer to develop state-of-the-art sensor fusion algorithms across DSP and ML techniques. You will contribute to smartphones, automotive, IoT, and wearable devices, collaborating with global teams to deliver robust solutions.

The role emphasizes balancing performance and power, with hands-on C/C++ implementation and comprehensive validation. Strong publications and advanced degrees are a plus, with opportunities in a leading sensors group.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related field.
• Experience with digital signal processing concepts and ML.
• Experience with DSP- and ML-based sensor fusion on sensor data.
• Publications in signal processing/AI are a plus.
• Hands-on implementation and debugging of algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Develop state-of-the-art algorithms for single and multi-sensor fusion using DSP and ML/AI techniques.
• Balance performance, power consumption, and computational complexity.
• Create reports on algorithm evaluation, validation and benchmarking.
• Work with global development and test teams.
• Code solutions in C/C++ for Qualcomm platforms.

Skills

DSP concepts

ML concepts

Kalman filter

Feature extraction

Classification

Regression

Python

MATLAB

C/C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

PhD in Engineering/Information Systems/CS

Tools

MATLAB

Python

C/C++

Job description

Company

Company: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems

General Summary

Sensors-based technology has a wide range of applications including navigation, gaming, smart user interface, multimedia, virtual reality and augmented reality. This challenging position offers the opportunity to work with leading edge AI & signal processing sensor solutions embedded in smartphones, automotive, IOT, smartwatches as well as other consumer electronics devices. Job activities span the whole product life cycle from early R&D to commercial deployment. The successful candidate will work with systems, software, and integration/test engineers in the QCT sensors group

Job responsibilities include:

• Develop state-of-the-art algorithms for single and multi-sensor fusion using DSP and ML/AI techniques. Typical development flow uses high level languages like MATLAB and Python.
• Balance between performance, power consumption, and computational complexity.
• Create reports on algorithm evaluation, validation, benchmarking and delivering complete design and user documentation.
• Work with global development and test teams.
• Code the solutions in C/C++ for software implementation on Qualcomm platforms

The position is technology focused and involves participation in a broad range of sensors systems engineering activities within the Sensors Technologies group

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors, Master or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related area or equivalent experience.
• Experience with using concepts in digital signal processing, adaptive filter, Kalman filter, linear algebra, probability and statistics, machine Learning concepts including supervised and unsupervised learning, feature extraction, classification, regression etc.
• Experience in DSP- and ML-based sensor fusion using accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data
• Publications in field of signal processing/AI
• Hands on experience of algorithm implementation and debugging.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Systems Engineering or related work experience. OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$147,900.00 - $221,900.00

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. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.