Senior Staff Engineer: Haptics R&D and Systems Engineer

Qualcomm · Hyderabad · 4+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-03

Tech stack: C, C++, Python

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Qualcomm India Private Limited
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Systems Engineering
Responsibilities: - Join Qualcomm’s Audio Systems Group and contribute to the development of advanced haptics technologies for Mobile phones, Wearables Compute, XR and IoT devices.
- You will work with experts in hardware systems, audio systems, signal processing, and control systems to create innovative haptics solutions that are deployed on industry-leading Snapdragon platforms.
- The role spans research, prototyping, validation, tuning, commercialization, and technology roadmap development, offering opportunities to contribute to patents, publications, and world-class products.
- Design and develop innovative control systems and signal processing algorithms for Smart Haptics to deliver crisp, immersive, and low-latency user experiences.
- Design and conduct experiments to characterize actuators and derive metrics relevant to haptics performance and user interface experiences.
- Drive analog and digital hardware design, including haptics interfaces and actuator control solutions.
- Tailor algorithms for specific use cases and integrate them into reference designs in collaboration with software and systems engineers.
- Define technology roadmaps and drive competitive analysis for next-generation haptics solutions.
- Drive end-to-end HW/SW system design, development, prototyping, validation, and commercialization of haptics technologies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable technologies on Snapdragon platforms and customer devices.
- Work effectively in geographically distributed and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Communicate technical results and recommendations to engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders.
Qualifications: - R&D experience in closed loop design, excursion or thermal compensation algorithms for speaker amplifiers or actuators.
- Strong background in electroacoustics, control systems, and signal processing.
- Experience with speaker amplifiers, actuators, electromechanical systems, and modelling.
- Proficiency in designing, prototyping, and implementing electromechanical models.
- Knowledge of lumped element models of LRAs and haptics actuators.
- Experience in closed-loop feedback control system design.
- Hands-on experience in signal processing, machine learning, and hardware/software co-design.
- Strong programming skills in MATLAB, C/C++, and Python.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and teamwork skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently in a fast-paced R&D environment.
- Experience with haptics drivers, and actuator control systems.
- Exposure to mixed-signal hardware design and embedded systems development.
- Knowledge of robotics, control theory, and advanced mechatronic systems.
- Master’s or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Qualifications

- R&D experience in closed loop design, excursion or thermal compensation algorithms for speaker amplifiers or actuators.
- Strong background in electroacoustics, control systems, and signal processing.
- Experience with speaker amplifiers, actuators, electromechanical systems, and modelling.
- Proficiency in designing, prototyping, and implementing electromechanical models.
- Knowledge of lumped element models of LRAs and haptics actuators.
- Experience in closed-loop feedback control system design.
- Hands-on experience in signal processing, machine learning, and hardware/software co-design.
- Strong programming skills in MATLAB, C/C++, and Python.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and teamwork skills.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently in a fast-paced R&D environment.
- Experience with haptics drivers, and actuator control systems.
- Exposure to mixed-signal hardware design and embedded systems development.
- Knowledge of robotics, control theory, and advanced mechatronic systems.
- Master’s or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
- PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Responsibilities

- Join Qualcomm’s Audio Systems Group and contribute to the development of advanced haptics technologies for Mobile phones, Wearables Compute, XR and IoT devices.
- You will work with experts in hardware systems, audio systems, signal processing, and control systems to create innovative haptics solutions that are deployed on industry-leading Snapdragon platforms.
- The role spans research, prototyping, validation, tuning, commercialization, and technology roadmap development, offering opportunities to contribute to patents, publications, and world-class products.
- Design and develop innovative control systems and signal processing algorithms for Smart Haptics to deliver crisp, immersive, and low-latency user experiences.
- Design and conduct experiments to characterize actuators and derive metrics relevant to haptics performance and user interface experiences.
- Drive analog and digital hardware design, including haptics interfaces and actuator control solutions.
- Tailor algorithms for specific use cases and integrate them into reference designs in collaboration with software and systems engineers.
- Define technology roadmaps and drive competitive analysis for next-generation haptics solutions.
- Drive end-to-end HW/SW system design, development, prototyping, validation, and commercialization of haptics technologies.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable technologies on Snapdragon platforms and customer devices.
- Work effectively in geographically distributed and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Communicate technical results and recommendations to engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders.

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