Staff Engineer - PC Gaming Middleware Development

Company:Qualcomm India Private LimitedJob Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Staff Engineer, PC Gaming Middleware Development

Job Overview

Qualcomm's in-house Game Studio is seeking an experienced engineer to develop high end games, and gaming technology showcases for Snapdragon based products.  This is a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge pre-commercial portable devices and contribute to the future of gaming in always-on, always-connected Snapdragon PCs.

The position is a multi-disciplinary role where you will be responsible for developing and porting gaming middleware to both Open Source and proprietary Game engines. Additionally, you will work to optimizing CPU, GPU, and the overall system performance of gaming content & middleware for Windows on Snapdragon. 

At the heart of the Qualcomm Gaming group, we are passionate about next generation gaming technologies and delivering exceptional gaming experiences.  Our highly creative teams are full of veteran game developers, artists, game engine experts and graphics enthusiast who work on our latest GPU and gaming hardware innovations around mobile, PC, and XR.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience.
• Strong proficiency in C++, with fair knowledge of the language specification.
• Experience with Windows game development and optimization.
• Solid 3D graphics related mathematics background.
• Experience developing, profiling, and optimizing modern rendering algorithms.
• Understanding of modern PC, and console game engine rendering pipelines.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Self-motivated.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing content with Unreal Engine or any other Open-Source Engine.
• Experience in Tools development is a plus.
• Familiarity with profilers and debuggers such as RenderDoc, VTune etc. is a plus.
• Comfortable working with large multi-million-line code bases.
• Exposure to multithreaded programming paradigm.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Education Requirements

Required: A BS, MS, or PhD degree in an engineering or computer science related field.

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