Qualcomm

Principal SW Engineer - LLM Serving (Cloud AI)

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5 days ago
San Diego, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$224k - $335k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Plan, manage, and deliver large commercial software projects.
  • Develop software solutions for LLM serving and inference acceleration.
  • Execute, analyze, and optimize neural networks and high-performance software for multicore systems.
  • Analyze performance bottlenecks in software and hardware solutions across multicore and SoC architectures.
  • Perform performance modeling of SoC architectures.
  • Contribute across the full product lifecycle from early research and development through commercial deployment.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally and communicate effectively with engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field plus 8+ years of relevant experience; or a master's degree plus 7+ years; or a PhD plus 6+ years.
  • Experience with serving frameworks such as vLLM.
  • Strong development skills in PyTorch, C++, and Python.
  • Strong understanding of LLMs, multimodal models, and reasoning models.
  • Experience writing high-performance software for multicore systems.
  • Strong understanding of multicore processor and SoC architectures, including cores, caches, memories, buses, PCIe, and NoCs.
  • Experience with performance modeling of SoC architectures.
  • Experience with machine learning accelerators and related software is highly desired.
  • Understanding of neural-network operators and mathematical operations, including linear algebra and math libraries, is desirable.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan, manage, and deliver large commercial software projects.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to work as a team player.
  • A master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Systems, or Computer Science is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants.
  • Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
  • Pay range of $223,600.00–$335,400.00 for the posted location.
Qualcomm

About Qualcomm

10,000+ employees

Qualcomm is a public semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, founded in 1985, that designs and sells wireless chipsets and platforms for mobile devices, automotive, IoT, and networking, notably the Snapdragon application processors and 5G modems. It also licenses a large portfolio of cellular patents to device makers, generating revenue alongside chip sales; its technology underpins many Android smartphones and emerging automotive and edge-compute systems, and it trades on NASDAQ as QCOM.

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