Graphics Research Engineer - Staff

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General Summary:

Explore new features in GPU, including but not limited to Ray Tracing, Mesh Shading, Anti Aliasing, Super Resolution. Exploration tasks could include literature survey, implementation, research on short comings and propose new changes that benefit GPU power, performance or functionality.

Architects, designs, implements, verifies, and optimizes various performance and power features of GPU cores.

Responsible for building functional modeling simulations, developing software, tools, and tests for ray tracing graphics, running benchmarks for different applications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

Job Description

Qualcomm is the largest fabless design company in the world. Qualcomm provides hardware, software and related services to nearly every mobile device maker and operator in the global wireless marketplace. Our chipsets power a variety of products; tablets, smartphones, e-readers and other devices, and our digital design team is at the core of all of them. Depending on your technical area, you will be responsible for becoming a subject matter expert and go-to person for other members of your team. The environment is fast-paced and requires cross-functional interaction on a daily basis so good communication, planning and execution skills are a must.

Qualcomm's Adreno Graphics Research Team is responsible for research, prototyping, profiling, analysis and optimization of emerging 3D Computer Graphics algorithms such as Ray Tracing, Mesh Shading, Workgraphs to name a few. The team works at the intersection of Computer Graphics and GPU architecture, identifying architectural inefficiencies in existing Adreno GPU hardware (HW) and proposing next-generation GPU HW architectural improvements.

Position Overview:

- Develop, analyze and optimize emerging graphics workloads.

- Build functional models and microbenchmarks to obtain a deeper understanding of underlying GPU HW and make recommendations based on analysis.

- Identifying and quantifying performance bottlenecks and resolving the same through either HW or SW (e.g. GPU Compiler or Driver) optimizations.

- Work closely with HW Architects to develop new features to define Next Gen GPU Architecture.

- Explore emerging algorithms in 3D Graphics domain including literature survey, competitive analysis, research on short comings and propose new changes that benefit Adreno GPU's performance, power and/or functionality.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's or higher degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

- 8+ years Systems Engineering or related work experience

Minimum Qualifications:

OR

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

OR

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

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master's or higher degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science.

- 7+ years of relevant GPU System Engineering or Research experience.

- Expertise with Vulkan, DirectX. OpenGL, or OpenGL ES

- Familiar with modern PC/console game engine architectures

- Familiarity with 3D graphics profilers and debuggers such as Snapdragon Profiler, RenderDoc, Pix, NSight, etc…

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