Engineer- Audio Architecture and Systems Engineer

Overview

Contribute to the architecture and design of audio system solutions and audio hardware blocks within Qualcomm's Multimedia Audio Systems Group, focusing on hardware-aware system design, data-path definition, interface integration and performance optimization for next-generation Snapdragon platforms across mobile, XR, Compute and IoT applications.

What you'll do

• Define and support the design of audio hardware, software, audio data paths, audio codecs and associated processing blocks.
• Analyze hardware and system trade-offs across power, performance, latency, memory, precision, and audio quality.
• Work with Architecture, Systems and Software teams to translate product requirements into hardware specifications and implementation requirements.
• Support hardware-software interface definition, control flows and power-state transitions to design low power solutions.
• Validate audio blocks and end-to-end audio use cases through simulation, emulation, lab measurements, and post-silicon debugging.
• Document architecture, design decisions, interface requirements, validation plans, and technical findings.

What you'll need

• Strong understanding of digital hardware design concepts and audio hardware architectures.
• Experience with audio hardware, audio blocks such as VAD, digital filters, interpolation, decimation, sample-rate conversion, or related DSP hardware.
• Good understanding of digital signal-processing fundamentals.
• Experience analyzing hardware constraints and trade-offs involving power, performance, latency, memory, clocking, and precision.
• Understanding of fixed-point arithmetic, quantization, rounding, saturation, and bit-accurate modelling.
• Familiarity with embedded systems, hardware-software interfaces, and real-time audio data paths on any DSP architecture HiFi/Hexagon/ARM/MCU.
• Programming in C/C++, Python, MATLAB.
• Bachelor's or Master's or PhD in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Communications, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

Nice to have

• Understanding of digital interfaces such as SoundWire and SDCA interfaces.
• Familiarity with audio codec design, DAC/ADC signal paths, and low-power design.
• Exposure to Qualcomm audio architectures, frameworks, SDKs, or development tools.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Job area: Engineering Group, Systems Engineering.