1 day ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$130k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead system- and algorithm-level architecture definition, standards studies, and feature decomposition to establish hardware and software requirements.
- Profile and optimize computer vision algorithms and models for memory, compute, power, and bandwidth constraints on mobile and embedded platforms.
- Collaborate with hardware, software, systems, product, customer, and external partner teams to commercialize visual analytics technologies.
- Write technical documentation, design specifications, and feature descriptions.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance while influencing decisions beyond the immediate team.
- Drive solutions from research through production deployment and provide technical leadership with minimal supervision.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master's degree plus 1+ year or a relevant PhD.
- Strong background in computer vision and video processing algorithms.
- Understanding of SoC architecture, compute accelerators, memory hierarchies, and hardware/software interfaces.
- Hands-on experience with modern deep learning architectures and real-time computer vision systems or embedded AI deployment.
- Strong Python and C/C++ coding skills for production development, optimization, and on-device deployment.
- Experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX, and OpenCV.
- Familiarity with hardware modeling, FPGA prototyping, RTL design, performance profiling tools, and hardware simulators is preferred.
- Ability to work across algorithm, software, and hardware boundaries and provide technical leadership.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- The listed annual base pay range is $129,500.00-$194,300.00.
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.