Company:

Qualcomm India Private Limited:

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

General Summary:

Job Description As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter and connected future for all powered by AI at the edge. Our NPU Software team builds full-stack features across host software and NPU firmware to enable efficient on-device AI inference. We are seeking ambitious, bright, and innovative engineers with hands-on experience delivering excellent quality embedded software solutions. The environment is fast-paced and requires cross-functional interaction with globally situated stakeholders, so good communication, planning and execution skills are a must.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to refactoring and modularization of AI software components, ensuring compliance with Functional Safety (Fu Sa) design norms.
• Develop high-quality unit tests and validation utilities that strengthen the robustness of the AISW (AI Software Stack), including frameworks that improve code coverage and code quality.
• Collaborate with cross-site stakeholders to implement software safety mechanisms and assist in building or improving tooling for automated quality enforcement.
• Work across the AI stack—from host-side components to NPU-adjacent modules—to ensure reliability expectations.
• Define tasks and create work breakdown including estimation of effort.
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and domain of activities is needed to address the immediate needs of the team.
• Work with various cross-site stakeholders to deliver commitments to meet different release milestones.
• Apply best software engineering practices.

Desirable Skills and Aptitudes

• Excellent C/C++/Python programming and software validation and quality analysis skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design.
• Hands-on experience with C++ programming is a must-have skill.
• Professional work experience in embedded software, driver development, and/or systems engineering on So Cs using Linux/Android/QNX/etc.
• Ability to work independently, understand scope, plan implementation, and lead your own development effort.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and team player.
• Experience with Code Coverage, Code Quality Tools (Parasoft, CTC++, Klockwork) used in Automotive MISRA compliance is a plus.
• Experience in automotive software validation framework is a plus.
• Experience with ISO 26262 Functional Safety Standard is a plus.
• Exposure to Heterogeneous computing systems such as ARM + NPU is a plus
• Experience in on-device model inference is a plus.
• Familiarity with use of GenAI coding tools is a plus.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master’s in engineering, Machine learning/AI, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 1+ years of experience with C++ and Python.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

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