Camera Hardware Architecture

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

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Camera Engineering

The Multimedia Camera HW Architecture team is looking for an experienced and talented Architect. The architecture group consists of hardware, software and systems engineers who are driving the analysis and definition of next‑generation architectures for our Camera Image Signal Processing (ISP) design for the smartphone and other product categories across Qualcomm’s roadmap. We have an exciting & dynamic technical position available with a focus on architecture specification and analysis for performance, power, and area.

The successful candidate will engage collaboratively with core HW design, verification, SW, systems, marketing, and product planning teams to:

• Architect market‑leading mobile camera ISP design with best‑in‑class performance and power
• Conduct hands‑on performance, power, and area tradeoffs to help define our ISP architecture
• Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define best‑in‑class multimedia system design
• Define HW micro‑architecture for implementation of image processing algorithms
• Deploy models, simulators, profilers, or even real hardware to provide quantitative justification for architectural directions
• Apply computer architecture knowledge of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, bus interconnect, MMU and memory/bandwidth analysis
• Effectively communicate experimental results, review with technical leads and peers and analyze outstanding issues
• Creatively overcome obstacles to obtain the answers to architectural questions
• Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems

Position is based in San Diego, CA.

• Experience in system or chipset development for SoC products, preferably in the mobile market
• Experience in multimedia HW development (imaging, video, display, audio, sensors etc) and ML/AI accelerators
• Experience with OS principles and HW/SW interaction
• Experience with SoC, bus interconnect, and memory technologies
• MS Degree Required with 2+ years industry experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Hands‑on experience in using and modifying simulators and performance/power models, especially full‑system models
  • Experience in VLSI design and verification
  • Experience in C/C++/System
    
    C programming
  • Pragmatic scripting & automation skills
  • Working knowledge of UNIX environment

• Image Processing Algorithm domain knowledge
• Experience in Hardware RTL design and ML based HW solutions
• Familiarity with Android OS, WM and other mobile HLOS SW development
• Excellent communication, documentation, and presentation skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

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Pay range: $ – $

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. Salary is only one component of total compensation  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  more details about our US benefits, please review our benefits page.

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