2 days ago
Base Salary
$197k - $295k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end architecture for critical Snapdragon Mobile system features from concept through commercialization.
- Define system-level architecture across CPU, NPU, DSP, memory, virtualization, security, kernel, and Android framework layers.
- Develop AI-enabled mobile feature architectures and recommend system, software, and hardware enhancements.
- Drive cross-SoC and cross-product scalability, performance, power optimization, and architectural clarity.
- Conduct requirements analysis, hands-on prototyping, design reviews, architecture reviews, and technical research.
- Set technical direction, unblock complex cross-team issues, mentor senior architects, and grow system hardware/software expertise.
- Coordinate requirements, feature definition, prioritization, implementation plans, milestones, quality, and commercialization commitments.
- Engage with OEMs, Google Android teams, external partners, product management, and internal hardware and software organizations.
- Represent Qualcomm’s mobile system architecture strategy in technical, executive, OEM, and partner discussions.
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.
- At least 4 years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, or Python.
- Extensive system-level software architecture experience for mobile, embedded, or large-scale platform software.
- Deep expertise in Android OS, the Linux kernel, and system software stacks.
- Proven experience leading complex cross-IP and cross-organization system features and working with OEMs or external partners.
- Experience with virtualization technologies such as pKVM, hypervisors, or secure VMs.
- Experience with AI/ML system software, NPU/DSP integration, runtime or model management, mobile SoC architecture, and hardware/software co-design.
- Experience architecting, designing, and implementing software frameworks for heterogeneous or multiprocessor systems.
- Experience with AI performance optimization, profiling, algorithm development, workload modeling, and performance and power estimation.
- Knowledge of AI domains including computer vision, audio, or generative AI, and familiarity with AI hardware acceleration.
- Strong technical communication, executive-level presentation, leadership, analytical, debugging, and strategic problem-solving abilities.
- Experience with high-performance computing system engineering or software and AI system optimization is preferred, including 10+ years of HPC experience and 5+ years of AI system optimization.
- A master’s or PhD in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering is preferred.
Benefits
- Annual pay range of $197,000.00–$295,400.00, plus a competitive discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
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.