Engineer- Audio Architecture and Systems Engineer
Qualcomm · Posted Oct 26
Semiconductor, 5G wireless technology, mobile platform, and AI computing solutions
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About the role
Qualcomm's Multimedia Audio Systems Group works on the architecture and design of audio system solutions and audio hardware blocks for next-generation Snapdragon platforms across mobile, XR, Compute and IoT applications. The role centers on hardware-aware system design, data-path definition, interface integration, and performance optimization, with analysis of power, performance, latency, memory, precision, and audio quality trade-offs. The engineer will define audio hardware and data paths, support hardware-software interface and low-power design, and validate audio blocks through simulation, emulation, lab measurements, and post-silicon debugging.
What you will do
- Define and support the design of audio hardware, software, audio data paths, audio codecs and associated processing blocks.
- Analyze hardware and system trade-offs across power, performance, latency, memory, precision, and audio quality.
- Work with Architecture, Systems and Software teams to translate product requirements into hardware specifications and implementation requirements.
- Support hardware-software interface definition, control flows and power-state transitions to design low power solutions
- Validate Audio blocks and end-to-end audio use cases through simulation, emulation, lab measurements, and post-silicon debugging.
- Document architecture, design decisions, interface requirements, validation plans, and technical findings.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong understanding of digital hardware design concepts and audio hardware architectures.
- Experience with audio hardware, audio blocks such as VAD, digital filters, interpolation, decimation, sample-rate conversion, or related DSP hardware.
- Good understanding of digital signal-processing fundamentals
- Experience analyzing hardware constraints and trade-offs involving power, performance, latency, memory, clocking, and precision.
- Understanding of fixed-point arithmetic, quantization, rounding, saturation, and bit-accurate modelling.
- Familiarity with embedded systems, hardware-software interfaces, and real-time audio data paths on any DSP architecture HiFi/Hexagon/ARM/MCU
- Programming in C/C++, Python, MATLAB
- Bachelor's or Master's or PhD in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Communications, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
Preferred qualifications
- Understanding of digital interfaces such as SoundWire and SDCA interfaces is a plus.
- Familiarity with audio codec design, DAC/ADC signal paths, and low-power design is a plus.
- Exposure to Qualcomm audio architectures, frameworks, SDKs, or development tools is a plus.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Qualcomm
Qualcomm is a global leader in the development and commercialization of foundational technologies for the wireless industry, including mobile processors, 5G, and on-device artificial intelligence. The company designs and markets digital communications products, semiconductor solutions, and system software used globally across smartphones, automotive solutions, IoT devices, and computing systems. Through extensive R&D and intellectual property licensing, Qualcomm powers a highly interconnected and smarter world.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 50000+ employees
- Founded
- 1985
- Location
- San Diego, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $53M raised
- 2018-11-01Grant
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
James H. Thompson
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
Ann Chaplin
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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