Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

General Summary:

This is a 5 days a week in the office, at our HQ in San Diego Office

General Summary:

As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drive digital transformation, creating a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm AI Software Engineer, you will develop and implement cutting-edge machine learning techniques that enable the efficient utilization of state-of-the-art solutions across various technology verticals.

In this position, you will be responsible for integrating the Qualcomm AI SDK into AI benchmark applications across multiple hardware accelerators, including NPU, CPU and GPU, and achieving competitive benchmark scores through targeted performance and accuracy optimizations.

You will have the opportunity to demonstrate your passion for software design and development through your analytical, design, programming, and debugging skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 4+ 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 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
  OR
  PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Integrate the Qualcomm AI SDK into AI benchmarking applications and deploy ML models — including computer vision, language, and generative AI — on Snapdragon hardware accelerators, including NPU, CPU and GPU.
• Design, evaluate, and optimize AI benchmark model’s performance and accuracy
• Collaborate closely with AI SDK, NPU hardware accelerator, CPU scheduling, and power/performance teams to conduct end-to-end performance analysis and implement optimizations that deliver industry-leading benchmark scores.
• Engage with AI benchmarking communities and vendors to discuss and propose enhancements to scoring methodologies and accuracy metrics, as well as to advocate for the inclusion of new, representative models.
• Analyze competitor’s SDKs used in AI benchmark applications to develop strategies that strengthen Qualcomm’s competitive position and benchmark leadership
• Contribute to a culture of technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement within the AI Software team.
• Work independently with minimal supervision; Staff Engineers provide guidance to junior team members and make decisions impacting their area and the broader work group.

Minimum Qualifications (Must Have)

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
• 2+ years (Senior) / 5+ years (Staff) of general software development experience.
• Proficiency in software development using C/C++, Python.
• Strong software development skills, including data structure and algorithm design, object-oriented or other software design paradigms, software debugging, and testing.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, presentation, and writing).

Preferred Qualifications (Desired)

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering
• 1+ years (Senior) / 3+ years (Staff) of experience building embedded software applications.
• Experience with ML application development or any benchmarking app experience like MLPerf, Geekbench AI, Procyon AI, AITutu etc.
• Understanding of Machine learnings and Deep Learning fundamentals and key concepts
• Familiarity with various generative AI model architectures such as LLMs.
• Experience with development on various platforms such as Linux, Android, or Windows.
• Experience with any machine learning framework like Tensor Flow, Pytorch, Onnx etc.
• Good understanding about Processor architecture, system design fundamentals. Experience with machine learning accelerators or GPU/DSP development, optimizing algorithms for hardware acceleration cores using OpenCL, DSPs and/or ML specific cores
• Experience in analysis and optimizations of ML KPIs like Performance, Accuracy metric, as well as system KPIs like Processor utilization, Memory, Cache, DDR etc.,
• Experience with SW optimizations for custom SOCs/Accelerators, SIMD, vectorization
• Familiarity with build frameworks like CMake, Make, Gradle Experience using/integrating Qualcomm AI Stack products (e.g. QNN, Genie).
• Well versed in version control tools like git, Gerrit.
• Ability to collaborate across a globally diverse team and manage multiple interests.

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$158,400.00 - $237,600.00

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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