XR Systems Technology Architect

The successful candidate will be responsible for (one or more of the following): 

• Identifying, understanding and documenting use cases and implementations of AR/VR and related technologies 

• Leading technology, hardware and software experts to translate use case requirements into implementation specifications 

• Driving technical workstreams for perception, reprojection and split-processing, including quality validation, latency/quality trade-offs etc. 

• Driving technical workstreams for sensor/display advancements, interface optimizations, reference design scoping for XR feature prototyping 

• System level use case modeling to validate and optimize architecture definition  

• Defining requirements for custom hardware accelerators and general purpose compute cores for XR features/flows & workloads 

• Defining and executing HW-SW feature analysis to optimize for power and performance 

• For this multi-disciplinary role an ideal candidate has proven expertise in AR/VR, computer vision, machine learning, perception, camera technology, hardware design, SoC architecture, HW/SW partitioning, and/or system modeling (power, performance, thermal). 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field, and project experience in architecture/micro-architecture 

• 2 to 10 years of system engineering or related work experience  

• Excellent problem solving and communication skills 

 Preferred Qualifications 

• Master’s and/or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science 

• Experience with Mixed & Augmented reality system design, constraints, and trade-offs 

• Extensive knowledge of graphics pipeline, reprojection and advanced rendering techniques, computer vision pipelines, machine learning methods and/or camera pipelines 

• Proven experience in conducting architectural trade-offs, power/performance analysis and/or SW-HW trade-offs 

• Experience with system level modeling (performance and/or power) 

• 2 - 6 years experience in one or more of above areas 

• C/C++ programming  

Educational Requirements 

Required: Bachelor’s, Computer Engineering and/or Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience  

Preferred: Master’s / Doctorate, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science and/or Electrical Engineering 

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