Qualcomm
Computer Vision System Engineer
$130K–$194K
San Diego, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- Bachelor’s: 2+ years of related work experience; master’s: 1+ year; PhD: no experience requirement stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; or PhD in one of these fields.
About the job
Defines and optimizes hardware and system architectures for mobile computer vision and deep learning workloads on heterogeneous platforms and AI accelerators.
What you'll do
- Map computer vision and deep learning models to mobile AI accelerators and heterogeneous compute platforms.
- Develop deep learning engine and accelerator architectures, including compute, dataflow, memory, quantization, and HW/SW partitioning.
- Model workloads and evaluate performance, power, thermal, memory bandwidth, and silicon area trade-offs.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 2+ years of related work experience; or a master’s degree and 1+ year; or a PhD in a related field.
- Expertise in system architecture and HW/SW partitioning for computer vision and AI workloads.
- Experience defining real-time hardware architectures and evaluating system trade-offs for computer vision and deep learning workloads.
- Strong C/C++ and Python programming skills, with hands-on algorithm prototyping and performance analysis experience.
Nice to have
- Multiple years of experience developing mobile computer vision and AI systems.
- Knowledge of modern neural network architectures, including CNNs, Transformers, Vision Transformers (ViTs), and multi-modal perception systems.
Pay
$129,500.00 - $194,300.00 USD base salary
Tools
CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, NPUs, C/C++, Python, CNNs, Transformers
AI focus
Architects and optimizes mobile AI accelerators and deep learning engines for computer vision, perception, segmentation, tracking, computational photography, and related AI workloads.
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