About the position
Qualcomm is taking its traditional strengths in digital wireless technologies into exciting new fields such as Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). Come and join the team that helped Qualcomm win Innovative VR Company of the Year at AIXR's 4th Annual VR Awards. The XR Perception R&D team investigates and develops the fundamental perception systems enabling self-contained XR platforms such as VR and AR headsets. We are growing our team to push the boundaries of mobile perception technology in order to offer a comprehensive platform to our customers. Candidates bring a deep understanding of computer vision and machine learning algorithms and technologies that are necessary building blocks of interactive, real-time, and immersive systems, including SLAM, 3D pose tracking, 3D scene understanding, human pose tracking, sensor fusion and mathematical optimization. They also have experience in designing solutions and implementations for real-time embedded and mobile platforms.
Responsibilities
- Be part of a world-class XR team researching and developing mobile Augmented and Virtual Reality enabling technology.
- Development of efficient and accurate computer vision and machine learning solutions for XR perception tasks.
- Understand and analyze requirements for perception systems for XR platforms.
- Collaborate across functional boundaries in defining architecture, APIs, design and schedule.
- See your design in action on industry-leading chips embedded in the next generation of AR and VR devices, smartphones, and robotics.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- OR Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- OR PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- Works in the lab, can use hazardous chemicals (e.g., glue, machinery).
- Strong understanding of 3D computer vision methods and mathematics, covering one or more of the following areas: SLAM, tracking and registration, 3D scene understanding, human pose estimation, sensor fusion, mathematical optimization.
- And/or strong understanding of machine learning algorithms and deep networks used in these areas.
- Experience with Augmented/Virtual Reality devices and applications.
- C++ experience.
- Experience with IMU and Camera Calibration techniques.
- 3+ years of industry experience is required.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in software development, incl. testing and debugging on XR devices, mobile platforms or other systems.
- Excellent C++ and object-oriented programming.
- Real-time Computer graphics.
Benefits
- $148,300.00 - $222,500.00 salary range.
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.
