Digital Design & SoC Architecture
$129,500 - $194,300 USD yearly
Originally posted November 3, 2026 by the employer.
About the role
Qualcomm's Audio R&D/Systems team is seeking a Speech and Audio Systems Engineer to maintain and develop AI models for speech enhancement, acoustic echo cancellation, and noise suppression. These technologies support voice user interaction in humanoid robotics, automotive systems, and consumer devices.
What you'll do
- Advance AI techniques for voice interaction in robotics and automotive platforms.
- Conduct research in speech enhancement with linear and distributed microphone arrays.
- Use multi-microphone AI to detect talker count and directionality.
- Apply multi-rate and adaptive signal processing expertise to audio algorithms.
- Prototype and demonstrate research concepts.
- File patents and publish papers on audio research.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience, a Master's degree with 1+ year of experience, or a PhD.
- Expertise in deep learning techniques, including extensive knowledge of CNNs, RNNs, and autoencoders for audio or voice applications.
- Experience developing algorithms for speech enhancement, acoustic echo cancellation, neural beamforming, or noise suppression.
Nice to have
- Doctorate in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with a voice AI background.
- Proficiency in PyTorch for AI model development, training, and data augmentation.
- Experience with Adobe Audition for audio analysis.
- Experience with multi-rate signal processing, adaptive beamforming, and distributed microphone array processing.
- Research publications in IEEE or other scholarly venues.
Skills: speech enhancement, acoustic echo cancellation, beamforming, PyTorch, signal processing
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