Qualcomm

Senior Systems Engineer, Data Center AI

Qualcomm
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San Diego, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$118k - $177k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop AI/ML solutions integrating Qualcomm AI hardware, software, technologies, and ecosystem components for inference performance, power efficiency, and scalability.
  • Design, implement, deploy, fine-tune, distill, benchmark, and optimize GenAI and LLM applications and models.
  • Research, design, simulate, validate, and troubleshoot system-level software, AI hardware, architectures, algorithms, and AI solutions.
  • Define and analyze system requirements, interfaces, functional behavior, performance, implementation strategies, and deployment approaches.
  • Optimize inference across heterogeneous CPUs, GPUs, and specialized accelerators using caching, batching, parallelization, and workload optimization.
  • Collaborate across teams to implement and test features, verify AI system accuracy, drive system-level triage, and present testing and debugging results.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related experience; or a master’s degree plus 1+ year; or a PhD in a related field.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks including PyTorch and TensorFlow.
  • Deep understanding of ML development, deployment, applications, system performance profiling, and parallel computing.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s or PhD, GenAI architectures, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, ML compiler optimization, distributed systems, hardware acceleration, MLOps, containerization, data center automation, and large-scale AI systems.
  • Experience with version control, code review tools, open-source development, collaborative workflows, and large matrixed organizations is preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants are offered in addition to salary.
  • Competitive benefits support employees at work, at home, and at play.
  • The posted base pay range is $117,800.00–$176,600.00, with additional US benefits details available through Qualcomm.
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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