Qualcomm

Senior/Staff Software Engineer (On-Device AI Prototyping)

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1 month ago
Hanoi, Vietnam or Ho Chi Minh City, VietnamSenior / Staff+

Responsibilities

  • Develop prototype applications, frameworks, and system components that showcase advanced AI capabilities.
  • Build agent-enabled applications integrating foundation models, tools, APIs, external services, and device capabilities.
  • Prototype and evaluate agent architectures, workflows, user experiences, reliability, and task completion.
  • Integrate AI models and agentic workflows with tool integration, orchestration logic, memory systems, runtimes, and end-to-end data flows.
  • Design clean, maintainable, extensible software architectures and contribute to internal tools and automation.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers and engineers and communicate technical designs, trade-offs, and implementation details.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and 4+ years of software development experience; alternatively, a master’s degree and 3+ years, a PhD and 2+ years, or equivalent industry experience in systems or mobile development.
  • Strong programming skills in one or more of Python, C++, Java, Kotlin, Go, or Rust.
  • Strong fundamentals in architecture design, modularity, testing, debugging, performance optimization, and maintainable software development.
  • Experience designing complex software systems and taking applications or systems from concept to working prototype.
  • Preferred experience with agentic AI applications using LLMs, multimodal models, tool calling, workflow orchestration, memory systems, planning, reasoning, or multi-agent architectures.
  • Preferred familiarity with LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, MCP, or similar agent frameworks.
  • Preferred experience evaluating agent reliability and user experience, rapidly prototyping AI applications, integrating AI features across platforms, or building internal tools and automation.
  • Snapdragon platform or on-device AI deployment experience is a plus.
  • Qualifying alternatives also include a bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of related work, a master’s degree with 1+ year, or a PhD in a related field.
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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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