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Senior Systems Engineer – Sensors

qualcomm

Santa Clara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 30 Jun 2026

💰 $213,200/yr($142,200/yr – $213,200/yr)

About the role

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Multimedia Systems

General Summary:

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

Job responsibilities include:

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.
Code the solutions in C/C++ for software implementation on Qualcomm platforms

The position is technology focused and involves participation in a broad range of sensors systems engineering activities within the Sensors Technologies group

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelors, Master or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering or related area or equivalent experience.
Experience with using concepts in digital signal processing, adaptive filter, Kalman filter, linear algebra, probability and statistics, machine Learning concepts including supervised and unsupervised learning, feature extraction, classification, regression etc.
Experience in DSP- and ML-based sensor fusion using accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data

Publications in field of signal processing/AI
Hands on experience of algorithm implementation and debugging.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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

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