Senior Engineer - Audio DSP

Job Posting Date

2025-09-08

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Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Software Engineer, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software, applications, and/or specialized utility programs that launch cutting-edge, world class products that meet and exceed customer needs. Qualcomm Software Engineers collaborate with systems, hardware, architecture, test engineers, and other teams to design system-level software solutions and obtain information on performance requirements and interfaces.

• Job function: This challenging job involves design, development and implementation of SW for audio/voice use cases on Qualcomm DSPs which are part of Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor. The use cases span across smart phones, smart speakers, media boxes and a wide range of other smart devices. It requires gaining in depth understanding of the DSP architecture, proprietary RTOS on DSP, DSP framework for audio/voice, various audio interfaces like I2S, HDMI, SPDIF etc, pre/post processing modules, Voice Activation and encoders/decoders for speech/audio. It provides opportunity to interact with Hardware, HLOS, Audio Tuning teams located globally. This position requires the candidate to design, implement, integrate and commercialize various software modules on DSP platforms. Responsibilities also include requirements analysis, software maintenance and troubleshooting of audio DSP framework, services, and drivers. Please apply if interested and prepared for this exciting but challenging opportunity
• Skills/experience:
• Experience 3-5 years on any DSP/Embedded processor with proficiency in C/C++ programming, computer architecture, operating systems and some of the below areas:
• Knowledge of multi-threaded programming.
• Strong software debugging skills in real time operating systems, preferably on DSP platforms.
• Audio use cases (e.g. playback, recording and streaming, Audio/Voice AI etc.).
• Voice use cases (e.g. CS and PS calls).
• Optimization for MIPS, Memory
• Audio/speech pre/post processing (e.g. Echo cancellation, Noise suppression, Audio Effects)
• Audio/speech compression standards (e.g. MP3, AAC, FLAC, AMR, EVS, etc.).
• Expertise in working with tools and techniques used on DSP platforms (e.g. Trace32, JTAG, etc.).
• Audio Interfaces like I2S, HDMI, SPDIF
• Responsibilities:
• Responsibilities include optimization for DSP, developing/enhancing the framework/drivers for new use cases, drivers for audio interfaces, drive design discussions across teams, SW maintenance.
• Education requirements:
• Bachelors/Masters in Electrical/Electronics/computer science engineering from reputed institutes

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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

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