Machine learning research engineer/Staff

Company:

Qualcomm China

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

General Summary:

Creates advanced machine learning techniques that enable a broad set of technology verticals or designs and extends training or runtime frameworks or model efficiency software tools with new features and optimizations. Models, architects, and develops advanced machine learning hardware (co-designed with machine learning software) for inference or training solutions. These enable the discovery and improvement of state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that has general applicability at functional platform level towards audio, camera, graphics, video, sensors, wireless, and other functionality over various operating systems running on ARM processors and other embedded hardware like DSP/NSP processors, GPU processors that are embedded into mobile, edge, auto, and IOT products, or on data center based systems such as GPUs or dedicated AI hardware. Develops optimized software to enable AI models efficiently deployed on hardware, such as machine learning kernels, compiler tools, or model efficiency tools, to make sure of specific hardware features, and/or working closely with hardware teams for joint design and development. Works with and/or optimize machine learning software frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch to efficiently run machine learning algorithms on hardware.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Summary:

Qualcomm's Multimedia R&D and Standards Group is seeking passionate candidates with expertise in Computer Vision or Computer Graphics. The team is developing advanced AI and deep learning algorithms, architectures, and systems for applications enriching the embedded systems for Smartphone and Extended Reality.

The candidate should bring a deep understanding in computer vision or computer graphics, exhibiting excellent analytical and algorithm development skills and proficiency in Python, C/C++ or OpenGL programming. The selected candidate will have responsibilities in one or more of the following areas:

• Research and develop efficient deep learning architectures and models for AI-enabled camera and extended reality. This includes but not limited to facial animation, image restoration, multi-view body 3D reconstruction, implicit representation of 3D head and body, and 3D body pose estimation.
• Prototype solutions on mobile platforms for proof of concept and demonstration purposes, such as mode training and testing, model quantization, C/C++ simulation implementation.
• Support product teams for commercialization, such as solution optimization, performance profiling and benchmarking.

Must have Qualifications

• Master's or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and/or closely related field.
• 3+ years of professional experience in computer deep learning software development for applications like Computer Vision or Computer Graphics.
• 5+ years of experience developing practical deep learning algorithms using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or other deep learning frameworks.
• Solid Background in Computer Vision or Computer Graphics.
• Knowledge how to handle various 3D Data representations like meshes (Raw/Retopologized), Point Clouds and UV Maps.
• Solid background in machine/deep learning fundamental knowledges and mathematics.
• Academic publications in computer vision research at top conferences and journals (PAMI, IJCV, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICCV, ICLR, ICML, etc.)
• Proficiency in C/C++, OpenGL, or Python programming.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of C++ and object-oriented programming, capability to design and implement robust, high-performance, and flexible system software.
• Expertise in various networks architectures such as GAN, Diffusion, Variational Auto-Encoders, U-Nets, NeRF etc.
• Experience in 3D head and body reconstruction and synthesis, 3D body shape and pose estimation, and 3D clothes modeling and rendering.  
• Experience in software development, incl. testing and debugging on mobile platforms, XR platforms or other embedded systems.
• Experience of deep learning model pruning, compression, and quantization for executing on edge device without performance decreasing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Track record of driving ideas from design through commercialization.
• Experience in computer vision algorithm design development and integrating machine learning algorithm into camera systems.
• Self-motivated and strong desire to learn new technologies, design novel techniques and propose them for technology commercialization.
• Team Player.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors - Computer Science, Bachelors - Engineering, Bachelors - Information Systems

Work Experiences:

2+ years Software Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

Masters - Computer Science, Masters - Engineering, Masters - Information Systems

Work Experiences:

2+ years’ experience with one or more programming language suitable for machine learning (e.g., Python, R, C, C++). ,1+ years of experience with low level interactions between operating systems (e.g., Linux, Android, QNX) and Hardware ,2+ years’ experience using statistics and probability (e.g., conditional probability, Bayes rule) ,2+ years’ experience in embedded system development and optimization with application to a specific problem domain in ML (e.g., NLP, multi-media). ,2+ years’ experience with Machine Learning frameworks (e.g., Tensor Flow, Caffe, Caffe 2, Pytorch, Keras) ,1+ years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above). ,2+ years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.

Skills:

AI Frameworks, Calculus, Data Manipulation, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, Performance Optimization, Python, Statistics.

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