Qcom Hiring for Automotive Voice Software Engineer at Markham, ON Full Time

Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:
Qualcomm creates products that deliver true-to-life clarity and high-fidelity audio for incredible acoustics. Our audio and voice user interface (UI) technologies offer a wide range of platforms designed to provide premium wireless connectivity, high levels of integration, immersive sound quality, and on-device AI for smart audio applications. Join us and:

Design, develop and support of audio drivers for Qualcomm’s next generation of automotive entertainment systems

Work with a local team and with remote developers on solving audio challenges and implementing automotive features.

Key responsibilities:
Design, implement, test, document, and support SW for new automotive audio features

Assess and debug customer issues and coordinate with the Qualcomm Customer Engineering team

Work closely with Automotive Multimedia SW developers and leads in global offices

Provide regular written and verbal status on current issues with local leads and remote developers as needed

Skills and Experience requirements:
10+ years work experience in embedded software and/or driver development

Candidate should be detail-oriented, strongly analytic, highly organized, and results-oriented

Strong communication skills (written and verbal), working with teams across multiple disciplines and multiple time zones.

Strong knowledge of C/C++ programming with a demonstrated ability to deliver commercial-grade SW

Strong understanding of low level software/hardware interface design and debugging, especially in a multi-threaded and realtime environment

Knowledge in one or more of the following operating systems: Android, QNX, embedded Linux, Greenhills Integrity.

Practical experience with virtualization technologies and/or para-virtualized device drivers is an asset

Thorough understanding of multimedia frameworks (QNX MMF/io-audio/Dev-A, OpenMAX, Android Multimedia Framework, Android Player(NuPlayer/StageFright), Android Audio System (AudioFlinger, Audio Policy manager, Audio HAL), Linux ALSA Architecture, GStreamer etc.)

Working knowledge of Audio and voice encode/decode formats, MP3, AAC, WMA, AC3, Dolby Digital, DTS, FLAC, AMR, EVRC, QCELP, and etc.

Experienced with implementing and working with audio processing pipeline for media applications (playback, capture, transcoding, streaming, voice call, analog audio codecs/ADIE, software defined radio, satellite radio, etc.)

Audio pre and post processing algorithms for subjective quality enhancement, such as: IIR, MBDRC, EC/NS, limiter, AGC, SRC, speech recognition, noise cancellation, natural language recognition, multi-mic, multi-speaker algorithms, etc.

Strong knowledge of streaming and networking protocols such as RTP, RTSP, HLS, Adaptive Bit Rate Streaming, HTTP, UDP, Bluetooth protocol.

Strong ability to identify and isolate performance issues in multimedia applications.

Fluent in industry standard software development tools: SW/HW debuggers, code revision control systems (git, Perforce), IDE’s and build tools

A passion for excellence in programming, quality and exceeding goals.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

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