Staff Systems SW Engineer – Sensors Software (Santa Clara)

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 sensor technologies 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.

The successful candidate will work on the development of software tools and user interfaces that support sensor technology research, development, and validation of workflows. The role involves designing intuitive and robust software interfaces, managing application state, and integrating frontend components with backend data processing services. The candidate will work with systems, software, and integration and test engineers in the QCT Sensors team, and will have the opportunity to contribute across a broad range of software and systems engineering activities.

Job responsibilities include: 

• Implement sensor signal processing and machine learningalgorithmsacross various embedded SOCs. 

• Debug, verify, optimize, and tune C code for MATLAB/Python signal processing and machine learning algorithms.  Critical to this role is:

• proficiency inC, Python and MATLAB

• the ability to implement MATLAB-coded algorithms in C

• familiarity with RTOSand multi-threaded programming environments.

• DSP fixed point algorithm implementations and quantization for ML models.

• Balance engineering considerations such as performance, memory, power, and complexity.

• Assist other development and testing teams with algorithm deployment.

• Architecting and implementing software frameworks and tools following established software designpatterns including Model-View-Controller, event-driven programming, and component-based architectures on a variety of platforms

• Prototype on referencehardwareplatforms.

• Documentimplementation flows and SW architecture design.

• At least4years of embedded software development, with experience in implementing digital signalprocessing,machine learning algorithms in C/C++.

• Hands-on experience on ML frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow,

• Experience with fixed point implementation and the use of quantization for ML models.

• An understanding oftheoperation of accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, etc.

• Detail oriented, taking a thorough and analytical approach, producing complete documentation.

• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

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