Engineer, Lead, Video Firmware

About the Role

As a Systems Engineer at Qualcomm, you will research, design, develop, simulate, and/or validate systems-level software, hardware, architecture, algorithms, and solutions to enable the development of cutting-edge technology. You will collaborate across functional teams to meet and exceed system-level requirements and standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and productize various video solutions on Qualcomm processors.
• Enhance video and imaging firmware solutions and support video and imaging hardware subsystem enhancements in future Qualcomm mobile processors.
• Design video and imaging features and work with a wide range of teams across the company (systems, software, hardware, etc.) during productization.
• Engage with customers to commercialize Qualcomm video solutions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Recent and relevant experience of 3-5 years in one or more of the following areas:
• Embedded systems domain
• Solid C programming skills, multithreading and OS concepts/fundamentals
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement and debug video/multimedia features for mobiles.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to guide team members on assignments.
• Able to lead a team of 2-5 engineers, handle task assignments, and decide strategy for the team.
• Has good decision making and resource planning skills.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

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

OR

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

OR

• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Preferred Skills:

• Good understanding of signal processing, video compression/codecs (Encoder + Decoder) and other video pre/post processing algorithms.
• Any of the multimedia (Video, Camera, Computer Vision) domain experience.
• Hands-on knowledge/experience on H.264/HEVC/VP9/MPEG family video codec(s) development, porting and optimization.