22 days ago
San Diego, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$115k - $172k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement agentic AI systems for autonomous reasoning, planning, tool use, and multi-step execution.
- Build and optimize RAG, hybrid AI, and knowledge-grounded architectures using enterprise data, external tools, and domain context.
- Develop self-improving agents using feedback loops, reflection, reinforcement learning techniques, automated evaluations, memory systems, and continuous learning frameworks.
- Apply LLM post-training techniques including supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, reinforcement learning, distillation, and domain adaptation.
- Create evaluation, benchmarking, observability, and safety frameworks for agent quality, reliability, efficiency, and business impact.
- Build and maintain multi-agent systems and orchestration frameworks for collaborative workflows and task automation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and deliver scalable AI solutions.
- Track advances in agentic AI, reasoning models, post-training, model routing, autonomous agents, and enterprise AI architectures.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Practical experience with LLM deployments and fine-tuning.
- Experience with vector databases and embedding models.
- Strong understanding of RAG architectures and implementation.
- Familiarity with modern AI/ML infrastructure and AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Preferred experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Transformers.
- Knowledge of prompt engineering, chain-of-thought techniques, reinforcement learning, containerization, microservices architecture, and ML operations/model deployment pipelines.
- Contributions to open-source AI projects are preferred.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, collaboration, prioritization, code-quality, and responsible AI skills.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program and potential annual RSU grants.
- Competitive benefits package supporting employees at work, at home, and at play.
- The position is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.
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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.