1 day ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$100k - $149k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end feature development for Windows Voice AI capabilities, including wake-on-voice, on-device ASR, translation, transcription, and TTS.
- Gather technical requirements and translate product goals into engineering requirements, architecture, and milestones.
- Design and implement Windows audio and driver stack solutions across user-mode and kernel-mode boundaries using CPU, DSP, and NPU capabilities.
- Develop low-power always-on audio architectures, including concurrency and power-mode transitions across audio features.
- Optimize and validate performance while debugging multithreaded and multiprocessor issues across hardware and software boundaries.
- Communicate status, risks, and mitigations and contribute to roadmap planning, execution, and process improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of industry software engineering experience focused on Windows system software, device drivers, multimedia/audio, platform software, or performance- and power-sensitive products.
- Proficiency in systems programming, preferably C/C++, and experience delivering production-quality code in complex codebases.
- Strong Windows development skills with Visual Studio, Git-based source control workflows, and disciplined debugging practices.
- Understanding of Windows processes, threads, synchronization, memory, I/O, and performance diagnostics.
- Experience developing or integrating Windows drivers with KMDF and/or UMDF, including build, deployment, and debugging.
- Experience with multithreaded programming, concurrency control, and performance and latency tuning.
- Windows audio ecosystem experience, such as audio drivers, audio endpoints, WASAPI, audio effects/APOs, audio policy, power-aware audio, or end-to-end audio pipeline integration.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot or Microsoft Copilot, with prompt iteration and validation against real code and requirements.
- Experience creating repeatable prompt patterns or templates for engineering workflows.
- Experience with low-power or always-on audio, power-state transitions, Modern Standby constraints, and wake or trigger flows.
- Familiarity with on-device voice activation and staged keyword or wake approaches.
- Experience optimizing workloads across CPU, DSP, and NPU while balancing latency, power, and quality.
- Exposure to ASR/TTS, speech translation, transcription, streaming and buffering strategies, and real-time constraints.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field is preferred.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants are available in addition to base pay.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Qualcomm is committed to providing reasonable accommodations and an accessible hiring process.
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.