Qualcomm

Customer Engineering / Solutions Architect (AI, Edge & Cloud) - UAE

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2 days ago
Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect end-to-end AI and digital-transformation solutions spanning edge devices and cloud platforms.
  • Translate customer requirements into scalable technical architectures, deployment strategies, and solution roadmaps.
  • Guide deployment and optimization of AI/ML workloads, including quantization, inference acceleration, and system scaling.
  • Architect cloud-native and hybrid platforms supporting connected devices, data pipelines, data lakes, analytics, AI-enabled backend services, high availability, security, multi-tenancy, and enterprise scalability.
  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor from discovery and proof of concept through deployment and production scaling.
  • Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, executive discussions, and collaboration with customers, partners, and internal engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Ideally, 8–12 years of relevant experience in customer engineering, solution architecture, or related technical work.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 4+ years of software engineering or related experience; alternatively, a master’s degree plus 3+ years or a PhD plus 2+ years.
  • At least 2 years of work experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
  • Strong experience with solution architecture, AI/ML systems, edge computing, AWS, Azure, GCP, IoT platforms, distributed systems, data engineering, and software architecture.
  • Experience building and deploying intelligent systems across edge, cloud, and AI environments.
  • Experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Field Applications Engineer, Customer Engineer, Technical Consultant, or AI Platform Architect.
  • Experience with drones, robotics, smart cities, industrial IoT, or large-scale AI transformation initiatives is desirable.
  • Arabic language skills are advantageous but not required.
  • Equivalent experience may be considered when candidates can demonstrate the ability to fulfill the role’s duties and competencies.

Benefits

  • Salary includes housing and transport allowance.
  • Stock grants or RSUs, performance-related bonus, and employee stock purchase scheme.
  • 16 weeks of fully paid maternity leave and 6 weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
  • Child Education Allowance.
  • Relocation and immigration support if needed.
  • Life and medical insurance.
  • Live+ Well reimbursement for health and recreational membership fees.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
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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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