Sr. Staff Software Engineer

Originally posted 2 April 2026 by the employer.

Own the design and development of GStreamer-based QIM SDK (Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia SDK) plugins for Qualcomm hardware platforms.

About the role

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Qualcomm, you will design, develop, create, modify, and validate embedded and cloud edge software applications across multimedia, AI/GenAI, and computer vision subsystems. You will build SDKs and framework components to facilitate end-application development across IoT products including drones, IP/security cameras, AI boxes, and media devices.

What you'll do

- Provide technical leadership in the design, development, implementation, and validation of embedded edge software, applications, and specialized utility programs. - Lead the architecture and development of multimedia, AI, and GenAI SDKs across engineering teams. - Own the design and development of GStreamer-based QIM SDK (Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia SDK) plugins for Qualcomm hardware platforms. - Define and deliver software features across diverse categories of IoT products and systems. - Drive feature design, implementation, unit testing, debugging, integration, code reviews, and regression testing. - Author and review technical documentation for software components and features to support development and integration.

What you'll need

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience (or Master's degree with 5+ years, or PhD with 4+ years). - 3+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.

Nice to have

- 8 years of experience programming in C and C++, building high-performance software for embedded and industrial systems. - 8 years of experience designing and leading real-time embedded and industrial solutions. - 4 years of experience with GStreamer, developing AI and multimedia product applications using open-source media pipelines. - Experience with AI and GenAI inference frameworks including PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX Runtime, and Llama CPP. - Experience with GenAI orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex, including agentic systems and RAG-based pipelines. - Experience with multimedia frameworks on Android, Tizen, and HALs for camera, audio, video, graphics/display, CV, and USB/UVC. - Knowledge of Android frameworks including AIDL/HIDL, Binder, system and vendor services, and Java/JNI bindings. - Background in Linux system-level programming including multithreading, concurrency, DMAs/IONs, IPC mechanisms (Binder, gRPC), and zero-copy architectures. - Experience writing GLES/GLSL or Vulkan shaders and working with programmable graphics/GPU pipelines. - Hands-on experience with Docker, containers, and OCI container standards and specifications.

Skills: embedded systems, AI/GenAI SDKs, multimedia frameworks, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Android frameworks