Staff SW Engineer, Constrained AI Software

Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drive digital transformation, creating a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm AI Software Engineer, you will develop and implement cutting-edge machine learning techniques that enable the efficient utilization of state-of-the-art solutions across various technology verticals.


In the AI Software team, we build the Qualcomm AI Engine to enable OEMs and developers to run their Machine Learning workloads on Qualcomm's low-power AI accelerators in a Constrained Operating Environment. Your work will directly impact the runtime efficiency, latency, and power consumption of AI applications running on Qualcomm hardware deployed on cars, notebook computers, phones, and wearables. Come join us to work on bleeding edge AI technology.

At the Staff Engineer level, you will play a key role in shaping the technical direction of the Qualcomm AI Engine, working with a high degree of autonomy across complex runtime features and subsystems. You will drive architectural decisions that span multiple projects, partnering closely with hardware, systems, compiler, and product teams to deliver scalable, high-performance solutions. In addition to hands-on development, you will provide technical leadership through design reviews and mentorship, ensuring that our software meets demanding requirements for performance, power efficiency, and long-term maintainability across Qualcomm's low-power AI platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement core components of the ML runtime framework for inference on Constrained AI systems, operating in low power, small memory footprint platforms
• Develop and maintain C/C++ code for runtime kernels and system-level integration
• Development of model analyzing tools for internal and external customers
• Development and profiling of performance KPIs and footprint across AI workloads for platforms such as Android/Aluminum, Linux, QNX , Windows and future platforms
• Track and adopt leading 3rd party compiler toolchains / packages across Qualcomm AI platforms/SoCs
• Address issues found in existing and past Qualcomm AI products
• Debug customer machine learning use cases executing on Qualcomm AI Stack
• Communication across globally diverse team
• Participate in software quality process improvements

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
• 3+ years of experience building embedded software applications.
• Familiarity with various generative AI model architectures such as LLMs.
• Strong understanding of hardware acceleration and deployment of generative AI inference at the connected edge.
• Experience with Hexagon DSP SDK or cross compiler toolchains for embedded systems
• Familiarity with TensorFlow, PyTorch or ONNX
• Experience using/integrating Qualcomm AI Stack products (e.g. QAIRT, QNN, Genie).
• Experience with development in various platforms such as Linux, Android, or Windows.
• Knowledge of low-level interactions between operating systems (e.g., Linux, Android, Windows) and hardware.
• Experience with CMake-based build environments.
• Experience with agile software development practices and git-based SCM.
• Ability to collaborate across a globally diverse team and manage multiple interests.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits :
$158,400.00 - $237,600.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer - and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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