Senior​/Principal Software Architect – System Level Datacenter AI Platforms KSA

Company: Qualcomm Middle East Information Technology Company LLC

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group >
Systems Engineering

Qualcomm is growing its presence in Riyadh and is hiring Data Centre Engineers to support our expanding infrastructure across the region. As Saudi Arabia accelerates its digital transformation under Vision 2030, Qualcomm is investing in world‑class computing and data centre capabilities to power AI, cloud, and advanced connectivity s is a unique opportunity to work in a fast‑growing technology hub, supporting critical environments and helping shape the future of data centre operations in the Kingdom and beyond.

Define, evolve, and technically lead rack management software platforms for AI accelerator deployments in hyperscale and sovereign data centre environments. This role is responsible for end‑to‑end architectural ownership across provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, security, and lifecycle management for rack‑scale AI systems spanning heterogeneous hardware and software stacks.

The architect will operate at the intersection of hardware, firmware, infrastructure software, and operations
, setting long‑term technical direction while remaining hands‑on where critical. This role partners closely with platform architects, hardware teams, ODMs, ISVs, and customer engineering teams to deliver scalable, secure, and operable rack management systems in production data centres.

• Own the end‑to‑end architecture for rack management software covering provisioning, monitoring, orchestration, and lifecycle management for AI accelerator racks.
• Define reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for rack‑scale management software across Qualcomm data centre platforms.
• Drive architectural decisions across control plane, telemetry, security, and lifecycle workflows while balancing scale, reliability, and operability.
• Review and approve designs across teams; provide architectural mentorship to Senior and Staff engineers.

• Architect integrations with rack‑level hardware components including BMCs, PDUs, CDUs, PCIe switches
  , and accelerators using Redfish, SNMP, IPMI
  , and vendor‑specific extensions.
• Establish scalable approaches for firmware lifecycle management, crash dump collection, remote diagnostics, and failure isolation
  .
• Define system behavior across power, thermal, networking, and PCIe fabrics at rack scale.

• Architect integration between rack management software and cluster orchestration and provisioning frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, Terraform, Foreman).
• Partner with AI platform teams to align rack‑level controls with AI workload orchestration, scheduling, and capacity management
  .
• Enable multi‑rack / multi‑cluster federation patterns where required for large deployments.

• Define telemetry, observability, and diagnostics architectures using systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, and log aggregation pipelines.
• Establish architectural frameworks for reliability, fault isolation, MTTR reduction, and Day‑2 operations
  .
• Ensure operational readiness with clear runbooks, dashboards, and escalation paths aligned to real‑world datacenter operations.

• Architect secure rack management systems with secure boot, role‑based access control, VLAN separation, QoS enforcement
  , and tenant isolation.
• Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure designs meet enterprise and sovereign datacenter requirements
  .
• Establish guidelines for credential handling, secrets management, and auditability across rack management workflows.

• Serve as the technical point of contact with ODMs, ISVs, and component vendors (e.g., Pegatron) for rack software interfaces and protocols.
• Drive software EBOM strategy
  , interface specifications, and protocol documentation.
• Influence roadmaps across hardware, firmware, software, and operations teams through technical leadership rather than direct authority.

• Bachelor’s or…