Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

General Summary:

This position is within Qualcomm’s Automotive Application Engineering Group, which works closely with automotive partners and customers from concept through commercialization. The team is involved in all aspects of embedded software, including software and hardware design, feature prototyping and integration, software customization, performance optimization, and debugging—critical for a successful product launch.

We are seeking a strong Software Engineer with solid knowledge and hands-on experience in design, development, debugging, and optimization of AI/ML solutions on one or more operating systems such as Linux, Android, Green Hills Integrity, and QNX embedded systems. The primary responsibility is to provide direct support to Qualcomm customers and partners in designing, developing, and debugging software issues related to Qualcomm reference designs, as well as customizing and optimizing software to meet product requirements using Qualcomm SoC features.

The ideal candidate will quickly ramp up on existing projects, understand automotive platform hardware and software driver architecture, read and write technical specifications and requirements, demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and collaborate closely with external customers to customize and launch new products.

This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge infotainment, digital cockpit, and autonomous driving technologies from leading automotive manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers, and to see projects through to successful commercialization.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience. OR
  Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 5+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
  OR
  PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.

• 3+ years of experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

• 3+ years of experience with debugging techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience in embedded software development, integration, and debugging

• 15+ years in Software Application Engineering, Software Development, or related fields

• 8+ years of experience working with embedded platforms

• 6+ years experience with high level OS (QNX, Linux, or Android)

• Proficiency in C/C++ and modern scripting languages such as Python

• Hands on knowledge of major CV/DL frameworks: OpenCV, OpenCL, Py Torch, Tensor Flow, Caffe/Caffe2

• Experience with supervised & unsupervised ML, including CV, NLP, and LLM based systems

• Experience with ML/MLOps pipelines for AI application development and deployment

• Solid understanding of ML/DL fundamentals, including CNNs, object detection, segmentation, and related algorithms

• Understanding of neural network operators, linear algebra, quantization, and related mathematical foundations

• Experience optimizing neural networks for embedded systems (latency, throughput, power)

• Excellent system-level debugging and issue triage skills

• Strong communication, collaboration, and customer focused mindset

• Ability to manage tasks, timelines, and drive cross-functional execution

• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and perform deep technical analysis

• Experience with ML applications in Automotive Infotainment or Autonomous Driving

• Familiarity with ML benchmark suites such as MLPerf

• Experience with dedicated ML accelerators or hardware blocks for embedded AI

• Experience with debugging tools (JTAG, ftrace, GDB)

• Experience tuning GenAI models or reinforcement learning

• Experience with inference optimization and edge deployment

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for CV models, LLMs, VLMs, VLAs deployment in ADAS and Cockpit Edge AI platforms

• Develop end to end applications for inference deployment on customer platforms

• Plan with team lead, take ownership of on-time delivery and quality.

• Train and support internal teams in issue resolution.

• Participate in cross department initiatives & activities to solve technical problems with cross-functional team.

• Contributing towards the continuous development & innovation of tools, technology and user experience

• Assist in the design, development, and implementation of Gen AI and LLM applications

• Contribute towards implementing fine tuning and distillation techniques

• Perform ML model benchmarking and functional analysis to drive requirements and specifications

• Support customer engagement with AI model/workload optimization and deployment

• Collaborates with own team and other teams to complete project work, including implementing and testing features and verifying the accuracy of systems

• Develops new and innovative ideas for a product or feature area.

• Drives triage of problems at the system level to determine root cause and presents results of testing and debugging to team members.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$157,600.00 - $236,400.00

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.

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