3 days ago
Base Salary
$141k - $211k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead development of Qualcomm AI Stack SDK software, including QAIRT and Genie, for AI model execution on Snapdragon mobile platforms.
- Design core AI runtime framework components under strict power, memory, and performance constraints.
- Collaborate with Mobile BU, OEM engagement, customer engineering, validation, performance, systems, and product teams to support launches.
- Optimize AI software for latency, power consumption, accuracy, robustness, stability, and reliability.
- Debug complex software-hardware issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive fixes.
- Improve AI tools, SDKs, documentation, workflows, debuggability, and developer experience.
- Lead feature development, influence technical direction, participate in design and code reviews, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field plus 2+ years of relevant experience; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 1+ year of experience or a PhD in a related field.
- Professional software development experience with strong C/C++ proficiency.
- Experience developing software in Linux environments.
- Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, software design, debugging, and testing.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for cross-functional and customer-facing collaboration.
- Preferred qualifications include embedded or systems-level software experience, generative AI and LLM inference knowledge, hardware acceleration experience, and low-level OS-hardware interaction experience.
- Preferred experience includes Linux, Android, Windows, CMake-based builds, Qualcomm AI Stack products such as QNN and Genie, and git-based source control.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting work, home, and personal needs.
- The position is onsite, as indicated in the job title.
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About Qualcomm
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.