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Multimedia DSP Software Architecture Engineer, Qualcomm, Inc.

Job Function:   Develop prototypes of multimedia applications, such as audio, video, image, and computer vision, on Qualcomm DSPs.   Define DSP architecture to meet multimedia features/performance requirements, such as DSP frequency, L1/L2 cache sizes, bus, and memory architecture.   Enhance DSP Instruction Set architecture by defining new DSP instructions to improve DSP performance for targeted multimedia app areas.   Develop efficient DSP code, both in C and Assembly language.   Profile multimedia applications on simulator and on-target HW environments, and identify computationally intensive parts.   Drive interactions between internal DSP architecture/HW team, multimedia DSP development teams, as well as customer engineering teams. Skills/Experience:   Must be familiar with Embedded Software, Real-Time OS, multi-threaded software design.   Strong in Digital Signal Processing theory, especially in areas of audio, video, voice, image, and computer vision.   Strong C programming skills, and hands-on experience on debugging embedded systems is required. C++, Assembly programming and scripting languages a plus.   Candidate should have a good understanding of computer architecture (core, cache, memory models, bus architecture, etc.). Familiar with ARM architecture or other DSP architecture is a plus. Specific knowledge in the following areas is a plus:   Development experience with OpenCL and OpenCV   Gesture recognition   Object recognition and tracking   Digital camera processing   Image and video processing   3D vision   OCR Requirements: Required: Master's, Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering For Details, please visit IEEE jobsite or Qualcomm Career. (source: IEEE Jobsite)