Systems Architect Role – Staff Level (Sensors Technology)

Systems Architect Role – Staff Level (Sensors Technology)

Skills/Experience:

• BS Degree required, MS or PhD degree in related field highly desired
• SOC Architecture background with system design experience involving embedded software on a large scale SoC systems
• Experience or Education involving hardware, micro-architecture and software
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  -Demonstrated ability to collaborate on projects with multiple teams and disciplines

• Outstanding critical thinking skills, ability to ask probing questions and desire for continuous learning
• Ability to develop and improve methodologies for experiments and analysis in the specific area of expertise

Description:
A successful candidate will engage collaboratively across the company with core Hardware design & verification, Software, Marketing and product planning teams to architect market-leading SoC solutions with best-in-class performance and power. The candidate will drive efforts to develop and prototype new system solutions and approaches. These products will empower customers with a new class of powerful emerging workloads like augmented reality, virtual reality, machine learning, automotive, and IoT.  These products will empower customers with a new class of powerful emerging workloads like that involve machine learning & AI models to support smart context solutions across various technologies like smartphones, IoT, wearables & automotive. This candidate will be in a highly visible position with an excellent opportunity to influence Qualcomm’s technical direction, to lead the industry and change the world!

Possible Assignments Depending on Area of Expertise :
The successful candidate will engage collaboratively across the company with core HW design & verification, SW, marketing, and product planning teams, to:

• Architect market-leading smartphone, tablet, connected camera, wearable, IoT, Automotive and other SoC products with best-in-class performance and power
• Conduct hands-on workload analysis including algorithm optimization and analysis of performance and/or power characterizations to help define our SoC architecture plans;
• Collaborate with HW and SW teams to define best-in-class multimedia, modem, compute and memory technologies;
• Deploy simulators, profilers, or even real hardware to provide quantitative justification for architectural directions;
• Directly apply computer architecture knowledge of CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, cache coherency, virtual memory, etc.;
• Effectively communicate experimental results, review with technical leads and peers, analyze outstanding issues;
• Creatively overcome obstacles to obtain the answers to architectural questions;
• Invent and file patents on technical solutions to relevant problems;
• Collaborate within a rapidly growing and world-class computer architecture team!

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 7+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience

Preferred Qualifications
Areas of Expertise (the more the better):
Candidates should have one or more of the following areas of knowledge and/or expertise:

• SoC / Computer Architecture
• Multimedia Systems
• Information security
• Power management techniques
• Digital Hardware Design
• Verification/Test
• Operating systems
• Data structures
• Embedded Systems
• Serial Buses & WiFi/BT communication protocols
• SystemC/C++
• Graphics Architecture/systems
• Power and/or performance optimization, simulation and modelling
• ARM CPU/Neon Algorithm Design/Optimization
• DSP Algorithm Design/Optimization
• GPU Exposure/Experience
• Open CL/GL Exposure
• Linux/Android Exposure/Experience
• Perl/Python/Other Scripting Knowledge
• Machine Learning