Job Description

Company:

Qualcomm Canada ULC

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Researcher

General Summary:

Qualcomm AI Research is looking for world-class researchers in deep learning, to join a high-caliber team of engineers inventing machine learning technology to provide best-in-class solutions while running with the most efficient use of power, memory, and computation.

Members of our team are part of a multi-disciplinary core research group within Qualcomm which spans software, hardware, and systems, and our members may simultaneously contribute to technology deployed worldwide by partnering with our industry-leading businesses across mobile, compute, automotive, cloud, and IOT. Our research team has demonstrated first-in-the-world research and proof-of-concepts in areas such model efficiency, neural video codecs, video semantic segmentation, federated learning, and wireless RF sensing (https://www.qualcomm.com/ai-research), has won major research competitions such as the visual wake word challenge, and converted leading research into best-in-class user-friendly tools such as Qualcomm Innovation Center’s AI Model Efficiency Toolkit (https://github.com/quic/aimet).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

• 6+ months of experience developing and/or optimizing machine learning models, systems, platforms, or methods.

The R&D work responsibility for this position focuses on the following 

• Deep learning research on real-time rendering and neural reconstruction (e.g. neural radiance fields, super-resolution for gaming, neural denoising of ray-traced images…)

• Identify, study, and reproduce the state-of-the-art

• Innovate, create demos, and publish at top-tier conferences

Ideal candidates will demonstrate the following: 

• ​Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.  

• Solid foundation in deep learning

• Extensive experience in modeling, implementing, and training neural networks in high-level languages and frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow 

Other desirable skills: 

• Ability to drive early-stage research

• Experience with NeRFs or similar models

• Experience with super-resolution models

• Track record of research excellence and high-quality publications (e.g. SIGGRAPH, ICLR, NeurIPS, CVPR, ICML, ICCV, etc.)  

• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field 
   

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