Qualcomm

SW Engineer, Sr Staff - LLM Serving (Cloud AI) - Cork, Ireland

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2 months ago
Cork, IrelandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Develop software solutions for LLM inference acceleration and serving.
  • Contribute across the product lifecycle from early research and development through commercial deployment.
  • Plan, manage, and deliver large commercial software projects.
  • Work with serving frameworks such as vLLM and develop software using PyTorch.
  • Execute, analyze, and optimize neural networks, including multimodal and reasoning models.
  • Write high-performance software for multicore systems using C++ and Python.
  • Analyze software and hardware performance across multicore and SoC architectures.
  • Perform performance modeling of SoC architectures and evaluate machine-learning accelerator software.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally and communicate effectively in written and verbal settings.

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.
  • A later general qualification states a bachelor’s degree plus 6+ years, a master’s degree plus 5+ years, or a PhD plus 4+ years of software engineering or related experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience with a programming language such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
  • Commercial software delivery experience spanning design, compiler technology, performance modeling, and bottleneck analysis.
  • Experience with serving frameworks such as vLLM.
  • Strong development skills in PyTorch and strong understanding of LLMs, multimodal models, and reasoning models.
  • Experience optimizing neural networks and writing high-performance multicore software.
  • Understanding of multicore processor and SoC architectures, including cores, caches, memories, buses, PCIe, and NoCs.
  • Experience with machine-learning accelerators, neural-network operators, linear algebra, and math libraries is highly desired.
  • Master’s-level study or background in Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Systems, or Computer Science is desirable.
  • Equivalent experience may be considered if the candidate can demonstrate the ability to fulfill the role’s principal duties and competencies.

Benefits

  • Salary, stock, and performance-related bonus.
  • Maternity and paternity leave.
  • Employee stock purchase scheme.
  • Matching pension scheme.
  • Education assistance.
  • Relocation and immigration support if needed.
  • Life, medical, income, and travel insurance.
  • Subsidized memberships supporting physical and mental well-being.
  • Bicycle purchase scheme.
  • Employee-run clubs, including running, football, chess, and badminton.
  • Open, relaxed, and collaborative work environment in Cork, Ireland.
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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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