Company:

QT Technologies Ireland Limited:

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS Engineering

General Summary:

Job Description

Job Overview:

Qualcomm's Chip Architecture multi-site team of hardware, software architects and systems engineers are driving analysis and defining next-generation architectures for our system-on-chip (SoC) products for the smartphone, tablet, connected camera, wearable, IoT, Automotive and other product categories. We have exciting & dynamic technical positions available in the following areas of expertise: Digital SoC systems, CPU, DSP, GPU, Machine Learning, Multimedia, Compute, Performance and Power.

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 & Wi Fi/BT communication protocols

• SystemC/C++

• Graphics Architecture/systems

• Power and/or performance optimization, simulation and modeling

• 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience. OR
  Master's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.
  OR
  PhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.

References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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