XR Perception R&D - Sr. to Staff Engineer for Computer Vision and Machine Learning

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Company

Qualcomm Semiconductor Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering

Overview

General Summary:

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.

Roles & Responsibilities

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.

• 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
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

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 using machine learning toolboxes (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Caffee)

3+ years of industry experience is required.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience in software development, incl. testing and debugging on XR devices, mobile platforms or other embedded systems
• Excellent C++ and object-oriented programming
• Real-time Computer graphics
  
  

Education

Required: Master with 3 years of industry experience or PhD

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering

Keywords

Virtual reality, Augmented reality, machine vision, computer vision, machine learning, SLAM, 3D reconstruction and scene understanding, computer graphics

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