8 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Develop and productize sensing camera firmware on Qualcomm chipsets for mobile, XR, and automotive projects.
- Design and implement embedded firmware for ISP hardware running on DSP processors, including work with processor architecture, RTOS, peripherals, compilers, and linker toolsets.
- Prototype end-to-end use cases with a firmware test bench for early firmware and hardware verification.
- Collaborate with systems, software, and hardware teams during chipset design, bring-up, validation, and commercialization.
- Support customer engineering teams and global OEMs in commercializing Qualcomm camera solutions and stabilizing solutions for customer use cases.
- Optimize firmware for performance, power consumption, and memory usage.
- Collaborate on new-hardware bring-up and debug camera, multimedia, and firmware integration issues and features.
- Investigate complex system-level issues using strong debugging and analytical skills.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience; alternatively, a master's degree plus 3+ years or a PhD plus 2+ years.
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience is sought.
- Experience designing and implementing embedded firmware for processors or microcontrollers.
- Understanding of image-processing or computer-vision fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience with camera, video, or computer-vision hardware pipelines and firmware development and optimization.
- Strong C/C++ programming skills and knowledge of multithreading and RTOS/OS concepts.
- Device-driver development and communication-protocol experience, including I2C, SPI, or UART, is a plus.
- Experience with Q6 processors is a plus.
- Strong debugging, analytical, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
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.