AI Software Engineer

About

Qualcomm AI Research is looking for talented AI software engineers to enable AI technologies on edge devices. This is your opportunity to join a high-caliber team of engineers, building best-in-class GenAI solutions with model optimization tools to deploy state-of-the-art models to edge devices with optimal power, memory, and computation use.

In this role, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that has continually enabled first-of-its-kind and competitive generative AI models on Qualcomm AI accelerator engines, such as the world’s first on device text-to-image generation with stable diffusion, and text-to-text with 7B large language model on device. You will collaborate in a cross-functional environment spanning hardware, software and systems and see your design in action on industry-leading chips embedded in the next generation of intelligent devices, such as smartphones, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and IOT devices.

Responsibilities

• Development of end-to-end embedded AI software to orchestrate neural network models on Qualcomm leading edge hardware as part of Qualcomm’s AI Research team.
• Implementation, debugging and profiling of agentic software solutions.
• Design and enhance the implementation of ML/AI SW stack and runtime software to improve performance and power efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience. OR
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience. OR
• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 3 years of work experience in a relevant field.
• Excellent programming capabilities with C/C++ and Python.
• Knowledge of deep learning and ML frameworks ( i.e. PyTorch ).
• Strong software design, development, and debugging skills.
• Knowledge of Android programming is plus.
• Familiarity of embedded platforms and programming.
• Experience with the Qualcomm AI Software Stack + SDKs is a plus

Compensation & Benefits

$140,800.00 - $211,200.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers.