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Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 17, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 24, 2026. Qualcomm scores B on the Alion truth index.

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Qualcomm is an American semiconductor and wireless technology company founded in 1985 and headquartered in San Diego, California. It holds foundational patents in CDMA and the 3G, 4G and 5G cellular standards, licensing them to nearly every handset maker in the world, while its chip division designs the Snapdragon platforms that power a large share of Android smartphones, personal computers, wearables and connected cars. The company has been diversifying away from smartphone dependence into automotive digital cockpit and driver assistance systems, industrial internet of things, and on-device AI processing through its Hexagon and Oryon architectures.
Backed by NEA, Valueaddvc, Mayfield

Company:

Qualcomm China

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

This role requires understanding of GPU bottlenecks. This also requires understanding how rendering for games work (their graphics pipelines) as well as to be able to write small rendering applications using the gpu using graphics APIs such as vulkan and hlsl/glsl/spirv. For this role you need to be able to analyze performance silicon measurements in Android.

Responsibilities:

  • In this role, your work will have critical impact in influencing next generation GPUs to be more efficient and to maintain competitive edge in Qualcomm Graphics solutions.
  • You will be contributing to performance analysis at GPU level for Graphics and Raytracing workloads such as benchmark/games by exploiting different SW/HW/Architectural knobs to find opportunities to improve perf.
  • Be engaged and contribute to competitive perf/power analysis for popular benchmark/games and to identify or be able to explain the gaps with reasonable evidence which could lead to next generation architecture/HW/SW enhancement opportunities.
  • Develop tools for efficient, streamlined and scalable debug/validation tasks.
  • Support presilicon workload enablement efforts for the analyzed workloads and games

Minimum Skills

  • Understanding of GPU architecture
  • Rendering knowledge and the ability to write rendering applications with vulkan and other graphics APIs
  • Strong knowledge of python and C++
  • Performance analysis experience
  • Sharp analytical skillset
  • Fluency in usage of latest AI tools for coding/debugging to solve system level problem
  • Minimum of Bachelor degree required
  • Fluent English communication skill

Preferred Skills

  • Masters degree or PhD
  • 3-7 years of relevant experience
  • Android experience
  • GFXR capture/playback for vulkan. Render doc capture and interpretation of the data.
  • Experience in competitive performance for GPU centric use cases
  • Post-si debugging experience

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail [email protected] or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

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If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.

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