Sr. Staff Engineer - Wearables

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. in California is seeking a Wearables Software Engineering Lead to design, develop, validate, and optimize next-gen wearables software platforms.

You will collaborate with hardware, software, and systems teams to deliver embedded solutions and state-of-the-art algorithms for wearable devices, with frequent travel to San Diego or Santa Clara for technical discussions and customer meetings.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Master's or PhD preferred for advanced roles.

Responsibilities

• Understand Wearables use case requirements, data flows, and HW/SW partitioning.
• Translate requirements into implementation specifications and contribute to software design.
• Engage with customers early to align platform requirements with product management.

Skills

C++

C

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Android

Linux

Job description

Company:

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.

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 and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Wearables Software Engineering Lead, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate next generation technologies & platforms enabling the future of Wearable devices. Qualcomm Wearables Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.

This role can be based in San Diego or Santa Clara, CA. Frequent travel to San Diego or Santa Clara to engage in technical discussions and customers meetings will be required.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with a cross functional team to understand Wearables 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


• Early engagement with customers and works on aligning with product management on platform requirements.


• Leverage expert software knowledge and experience to implement and oversee the design, development, creation, modification, and validation of embedded 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 wearables algorithms and features into commercial wearables products


• Develop production code and system architectures with excellent design quality


• Expertise with modern C++, 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.)


• Strong skills in analyzing performance, testing, and debugging on these systems


• Solid experience with established software development processes (CI/CD, testing, code reviews, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
  OR
  Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
  OR
  PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.


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

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.


• 12+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.


• Experience with wearables technologies and devices


• Proven experience in conducting architectural trade-offs, power/performance analysis and/or SW-HW trade-offs


• Experience with embedded platforms such as Android and Linux

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$162,600.00 - $244,000.00

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.