Systems Engineer – Sensors

Qualcomm
Santa Clara, California, United States of America2026-02-17onsite

About the job

Sensors-based technology has a wide range of applications including navigation, gaming, smart user interface, multimedia, virtual reality and augmented reality. This challenging position offers the opportunity to work with leading edge AI & signal processing sensor solutions embedded in smartphones, automotive, IOT, smartwatches as well as other consumer electronics devices. Job activities span the whole product life cycle from early R&D to commercial deployment. The successful candidate will work with systems, software, and integration/test engineers in the QCT sensors group

Responsibilities

Develop state-of-the-art algorithms for single and multi-sensor fusion using DSP and ML/AI techniques. Typical development flow uses high level languages like MATLAB and Python.

Balance between performance, power consumption, and computational complexity.

Create reports on algorithm evaluation, validation, benchmarking and delivering complete design and user documentation.

Work with global development and test teams.

Software implementation in C/C++ on Qualcomm platforms

Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

*Works in the lab, can use hazardous chemicals (e.g., glue, machinery).

Preferred

Bachelors, Master or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related area or equivalent experience.

Experience with using concepts in digital signal processing, linear algebra, probability and statistics, machine Learning concepts including supervised and unsupervised learning, feature extraction, classification, regression etc.

Knowledge of inertial sensors or working on algorithm designs using IMUs.

Publications in field of signal processing/AI

Hands on experience of algorithm implementation and debugging.