3 days ago
Chennai, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and drive long-term platform software architecture and technical strategy for AI inferencing across Qualcomm’s edge AI products.
- Lead cross-functional architecture initiatives spanning software, hardware, AI accelerators, security, product teams, and silicon architecture.
- Translate AI workloads, product requirements, and technology trends into platform architecture and roadmap recommendations.
- Drive hardware/software co-design through architectural analysis, technical proposals, and strategic technology planning.
- Lead system-level architecture across operating systems, AI runtimes, memory systems, virtualization, security, interconnects, and heterogeneous computing.
- Evaluate architectural alternatives and develop specifications balancing performance, power, scalability, security, and product requirements.
- Drive organizational alignment through architecture reviews, technical leadership, and stakeholder engagement.
- Mentor engineers and architects and help establish architectural best practices, technical standards, and long-term technology direction.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field plus 8+ years of Software Engineering or related experience; or a master’s degree plus 7+ years; or a PhD plus 6+ years.
- 4+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Preferred: 15+ years architecting complex embedded, platform, or systems software solutions.
- Demonstrated success driving architecture and technical strategy across multiple product generations and organizations.
- Strong hardware/software interface design, system architecture, and end-to-end platform engineering experience.
- Deep expertise in several areas including SoC and computer architecture, ARM or RISC-V, Linux kernel and device drivers, memory systems, DMA, IOMMU, virtualization, security architecture, AI inferencing runtimes, compilers, LLMs, Transformer architectures, and heterogeneous computing.
- Ability to influence senior technical leaders and drive consensus across geographically distributed teams.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and technical presentation skills.
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.