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Shanghai, China or Beijing, ChinaSenior
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize AI kernels and operators for Qualcomm Cloud AI platforms.
- Enable and optimize LLM, MoE, and multimodal models for large-scale cloud inference.
- Drive accuracy, performance, efficiency, memory-footprint, and ROM/RAM optimizations across the software stack.
- Apply graph transformation, operator lowering, scheduling, operator fusion, kernel auto-tuning, code generation, and memory scheduling techniques.
- Analyze and resolve performance bottlenecks through profiling, benchmarking, and modeling.
- Collaborate with performance and modeling teams and lead cross-functional engineering teams delivering complex technical projects.
Requirements
- Master's degree or above in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or the stated bachelor's/master's/PhD alternatives in a related discipline.
- At least 5 years of experience in Cloud AI inference, kernel/operator development, or AI compiler technologies; the minimum qualification alternatives specify 4+ years with a PhD, 5+ with a master's degree, or 6+ with a bachelor's degree.
- At least 3 years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Proficiency in C++, Python, and Linux development environments.
- Deep understanding of Transformer architectures, including LLMs, MoE, and modern foundation models.
- Strong experience with compiler technologies such as MLIR, Triton, TVM, or similar frameworks.
- Strong experience with parallel computing architectures, vectorization, tiling, memory hierarchy optimization, workload scheduling, graph optimization, model accuracy validation, and performance and memory optimization.
- Experience with requirements analysis, system design, end-to-end solution architecture, and leading cross-functional engineering teams.
- Preferred experience optimizing Attention, FlashAttention, KV Cache, Embedding, GEMM, Softmax, and MoE routing operators.
- Preferred hands-on experience developing custom operators and high-performance kernels for GPUs, NPUs, TPUs, or custom AI hardware.
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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.