Automotive Audio Embedded Software Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

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Software Engineering

Qualcomm Technologies' audio products deliver crisp, clear listening experiences for a wide range of products. Our products are designed to offer premium wireless connectivity, high levels of integration, immersive sound quality, and on-device AI for smart audio applications. Join this team and contribute to the design, development, and support of audio drivers for Qualcomm's next generation of automotive entertainment systems

• Design, implement, test, document, and support SW for new automotive audio features
• Assess and debug customer issues and coordinate with the Qualcomm Customer Engineering team
• Work closely with Automotive Multimedia SW developers and leads in global offices
• Provide regular written and verbal status on current issues with local leads and remote developers as needed
• Adapt to changes and setbacks in order to manage pressure and meet deadlines.
• Collaborate with others inside project team to accomplish project objectives.
• Communicate with project lead to provide status and information about impending obstacles.
• Quickly resolve complex software issues and bugs.
• Gather, integrate, and interpret information specific to a module or sub-block of code from a variety of sources in order to troubleshoot issues and find solutions.
• Seek others' opinions and shares own opinions with others about ways in which a problem can be addressed differently.
• Participate in technical conversations with tech leads/managers.
• Anticipate and communicate issues with project team to maintain open communication.
• Makes decisions based on incomplete or changing specifications and obtains adequate resources needed to complete assigned tasks.
• Prioritize project deadlines and deliverables with minimal supervision.
• Resolve straightforward technical issues and escalates more complex technical issues to an appropriate party (e.g., project lead, colleagues).
• Writes readable code for large features or significant bug fixes to support collaboration with other engineers.
• Determine which work tasks are most important for self and junior engineers, stays focused, and deals with setbacks in a timely manner.
• Unit test own code to verify the stability and functionality of a feature.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

• 4+ years work experience in embedded software and/or driver development
• Candidate should be detail-oriented, strongly analytic, highly organized, and results-oriented
• Strong communication skills (written and verbal), working with teams across multiple disciplines and multiple time zones.
• Strong knowledge of C/C++ programming with a demonstrated ability to deliver commercial-grade SW
• Strong understanding of low level software/hardware interface design and debugging, especially in a multi-threaded and realtime environment
• Knowledge in one or more of the following operating systems:
  Android, QNX, embedded Linux, Greenhills Integrity.
• Practical experience with virtualization technologies and/or para-virtualized device drivers is an asset
• Thorough understanding of multimedia frameworks (QNX MMF/io-audio/Dev-A, OpenMAX, Android Multimedia Framework, Android Player(NuPlayer/Stage Fright), Android Audio System (Audio Flinger, Audio Policy manager, Audio HAL), Linux ALSA Architecture, GStreamer etc.)
• Working knowledge of Audio and voice encode/decode formats, MP3, AAC, WMA, AC3, Dolby Digital, DTS, FLAC, AMR, EVRC, QCELP, and etc.
• Experienced with implementing and working with audio processing pipeline for media applications (playback, capture, transcoding, streaming, voice…