Company:

Qualcomm Incorporated

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

Drive the design, governance, and responsible adoption of AI across the enterprise. In this role, you’ll establish a collaborative governance ecosystem spanning models, datasets, fine‑tuned adapters, prompts, agents, AI products, and implementations—while partnering closely with Enterprise Architecture to define high‑level patterns and reference architectures. You’ll guide the prioritization of use cases, shape the enterprise AI platform strategy (cloud and on‑prem), and ensure AI solutions are secure, scalable, cost‑efficient, and compliant. If you thrive at the intersection of architecture, governance, and product leadership—and you’re excited to unlock value from agentic automation—this is for you.

This role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Platform

• Define end‑to‑end AI solution architectures (cloud & on‑prem) including model serving, RAG/LLM patterns, vector indexing, data integration, and observability.

• Establish reference architectures, “golden paths,” and reusable templates that integrate with the enterprise AI platform.

• Lead evaluations and POCs of AI capabilities (LLM serving engines, vector DBs, orchestration frameworks, evaluation toolchains, guardrails).

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to align AI patterns with enterprise standards, security, and roadmaps.

• Guide the design of scalable inference topologies (GPU/CPU, autoscaling, caching, batching, token optimization) and performance tuning.

AI Governance & Risk Management

• Stand up and run a federated, collaborative AI governance council with clear RACI across business, security, legal, compliance, and data teams.

• Define and enforce policies across the AI lifecycle: model/data catalogs, lineage, approvals, evaluations, bias/fairness testing, usage controls, and retention.

• Implement model/data registries, adapter/prompt catalogs, and change control with traceability from use case → model → dataset → deployment.

• Operationalize Responsible AI: safety guardrails, prompt/response policies, red‑teaming, monitoring for drift/toxicity, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls.

• Ensure AI supply‑chain security (licenses, provenance, SBOMs, model signing), privacy, and regulatory compliance.

Use Case Portfolio & Technical Product Leadership

• Run intake, triage, and prioritization of AI and agentic automation use cases; align with business OKRs and platform strategy.

• Shape success metrics and delivery roadmaps in partnership with product, data, security, and engineering teams.

• Drive build/partner/buy analyses and vendor selections; negotiate guardrail requirements and SLAs.

• Provide hands‑on guidance to product squads on decomposition, MVP scoping, and path‑to‑production.

Agentic Automation & RPA

• Define architecture and governance for agentic automation (LLM‑based agents, tools, skills) and RPA integrations.

• Establish patterns for secure tool invocation, approvals, auditability, and exception handling across business processes.

Operations, Observability & Cost

• Define SLOs/SLIs for AI services; implement robust logging, tracing, and evaluation pipelines (quality, latency, cost).

• Build cost governance and Fin Ops practices for AI workloads (token usage, GPU utilization, autoscaling policies).

• Lead incident response and post‑incident reviews for AI systems; drive continuous improvement.

Leadership & Influence

• Evangelize best practices, create enablement materials, and mentor architects/engineers and product managers.

• Drive alignment across security, data, platform, and enterprise architecture; foster a culture of responsible innovation.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years in software/AI/ML engineering, platform or enterprise architecture, with5+ years in a leadership role managing cross‑functional initiatives.

• Engineering degree (Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or related).

• Proven experience defining AI solutions architectures (cloud & on‑prem), including LLM/RAG patterns and model lifecycle.

• Strong understanding of AI inference—throughput/latency trade‑offs, batching/caching, GPU/CPU sizing, quantization, token optimization.

• Demonstrated Enterprise AI Governance experience (policies, approvals, model/data lineage, risk/compliance, Responsible AI).

• Hands‑on with Kubernetes(Helm/Kustomize, autoscaling, service mesh, GPU operators) and LLM serving engines (e.g., vLLM, TensorRT‑LLM, Triton, KServe/Seldon, Ray Serve).

• Experience with agentic automation frameworks(e.g., Lang Graph, Semantic Kernel, Auto Gen) and RPA (e.g., Microsoft Power Automate, Ui Path, Automation Anywhere).

• Excellent full‑stack web & mobile architecture knowledge (APIs, eventing, microservices, identity/authorization, mobile backends).

• Experience as a Technical Product Manager or close TPM partnership—portfolio planning, vendor evaluation, and stakeholder management.

• Working knowledge of the enterprise IT ecosystem (identity, networking, security, data platforms, Dev Sec Ops, compliance).

• Strong communication and executive‑level storytelling; ability to influence and drive consensus across diverse stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Enterprise Architecture frameworks and tools (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman; LeanIX/Ardoq/Sparx EA).

• Experience operating AI platforms at scale (multi‑tenant, multi‑cloud/on‑prem), including GPU scheduling (NVIDIA GPU Operator/MIG) and edge/hybrid scenarios.

• Knowledge of MLOps/LLMOps toolchains (MLflow, Databricks/Mosaic AI, Vertex AI, Azure AI/ML, Sage Maker; model/data catalogs and evaluators).

• Experience with vector databases and RAG components (e.g., Azure AI Search, Pinecone, Weaviate, Milvus), and feature stores (e.g., Feast).

• Observability expertise (Open Telemetry, Prometheus/Grafana) and AI quality monitoring (e.g., human feedback, eval pipelines, drift detection).

• Security, privacy, and compliance background (policy‑as‑code with OPA/Kyverno, model/content safety, data masking, DLP, encryption).

• Certifications: TOGAF, CKA/CKS, major cloud AI certifications (Azure/AWS/GCP), or Responsible AI training.

• Experience establishing governance councils and federated operating models across business units.

• Track record delivering agentic automations that integrate with enterprise systems (ERP/CRM/ITSM) with measurable ROI.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail disability-accomodations@qualcomm.com or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).

To all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies: Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.

EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.

Qualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.

Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$192,600.00 - $289,000.00

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.