Principal Engineer Software Engineering

Position: Principal Engineer United States of America Software Engineering
## Principal Engineer San Diego, California, United States of America Apply Now Find out how well you match with this jobJob ID3094295##
** 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.)
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* Minimum Qualifications:

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* • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR  Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR  PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 4+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
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* Preferred Qualifications:

*** Master's Degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science or related field.
* 15+ 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 Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disabili or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process.

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