Staff Embedded Software Engineer – Edge AI/GenAI & Multimedia

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design and develop Multimedia, AI, and Gen AI SDKs/framework components to facilitate end-application development across IoT product categories
• ▹Design and develop GenAI large language model (LLM) and vision-language model (VLM) inference workflows, including pre-processing, inference, post-processing, and orchestration
• ▹Design and develop multi-stream AI and chained AI/GenAI pipelines for real-world IoT products and applications
• ▹Own the design and development of GStreamer-based plugins for the QIM SDK (Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia SDK) on Qualcomm hardware platforms, including design documents, production-quality software, unit tests, and ongoing technical support
• ▹Drive feature design, implementation, debugging, and system integration to ensure high-quality delivery on schedule
• ▹Lead code reviews, regression testing, and issue triage to uphold strong engineering standards and product quality
• ▹Collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and project teams to align technical execution with broader product and program objectives
• ▹Author and review technical documentation for software components and features to support development, integration, and long-term maintainability

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 4+ years of software engineering experience, or Master's with 3+ years, or PhD with 2+ years
• ▹2+ years of work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• ▹5+ years of experience programming in C and C++, with a strong track record of building high-performance software for embedded and industrial systems
• ▹5+ years of experience designing and leading real-time embedded and industrial software solutions, with strong hands-on technical execution
• ▹Strong experience with AI and GenAI inference frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX Runtime, Llama.cpp, and LiteRT, with a solid foundation in AI concepts, model architectures, tensor layouts and transformations
• ▹2+ years of experience with GStreamer, including development of AI and multimedia applications using open-source media pipelines

Nice to have

• ▹Hands-on experience with GenAI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, including building agent-based systems and RAG pipelines
• ▹Hands-on experience with multimedia frameworks across Android, Tizen, and other operating systems, with deep understanding of hardware abstraction layers (HALs) for camera, audio, video, graphics/display, computer vision, and USB/UVC
• ▹Strong knowledge of Android system architecture, including AIDL/HIDL, Binder, system and vendor services, and Java/JNI integration
• ▹Experience building AI applications for vision and audio use cases (classification, object detection, segmentation, pose estimation) and GenAI-powered applications
• ▹Strong background in Linux system-level programming: multithreading, concurrency, DMA/ION memory handling, IPC mechanisms (Binder, gRPC), zero-copy architectures
• ▹Hands-on experience writing OpenGL ES (GLES) and GLSL shaders and working with programmable graphics/GPU pipelines
• ▹Hands-on experience writing Vulkan shaders
• ▹Hands-on experience with Docker and container technologies, including OCI container standards
• ▹Proven development experience across embedded Linux, Ubuntu, and Android software stacks
• ▹End-to-end experience across the software development lifecycle: architecture, design, implementation, deployment, and support

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive annual discretionary bonus program
• ▹Opportunity for annual RSU grants
• ▹Highly competitive benefits package

About the company

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what is possible to enable next-generation experiences; its software engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, and architecture teams to design system-level software solutions for cutting-edge, world-class products.