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Staff Engineer, Machine Learning Engineering; -device SW

Job in San Diego, San Diego County, California, 92189, USA
Listing for: Qualcomm
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-03-15
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    AI Engineer, Machine Learning/ ML Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Staff Engineer, Machine Learning Engineering (On-device SW)
Company:Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group >
Machine Learning Engineering

General

Summary:

Qualcomm AI Research is looking for talented AI software engineers to enable AI technologies on edge devices. This is your opportunity to join a high-caliber team of engineers, building best-in-class GenAI solutions with model optimization tools to deploy state-of-the-art models to edge devices with optimal power, memory, and computation use.

In this role, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that has continually enabled first-of-its-kind and competitive generative AI models on Qualcomm AI accelerator engines, such as the world’s first on device text-to-image generation with stable diffusion, and text-to-text with 7B large language model on device.

You will collaborate in a cross-functional environment spanning hardware, software and systems and see your design in action on industry-leading chips embedded in the next generation of intelligent devices, such as smartphones, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and IOT devices.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ 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 1+ year of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

Responsibilities:

  • Development of end-to-end embedded AI software to run quantized neural network models on Qualcomm leading edge hardware with optimal resources.
  • Design and enhance the implementation of ML/AI SW stack, kernels, and runtime software to improve performance and power efficiency.
  • Collaborating with our AI Processor Hardware team to implement high-quality solutions for new ML operators/layers that optimally utilize new capabilities in next-gen AI processors.
  • Development of debugging/profiling tools and user-friendly SDKs for customers to foster rapid deployment of their new use cases.

Preferred

Skills and Experience:

  • 3+ years of professional work experience in a relevant field.
  • Excellent programming capabilities with C/C++ and Python.
  • Knowledge of deep learning and ML frameworks ( i.e. PyTorch ).
  • Strong software design, development, and debugging skills.
  • Knowledge of Android programming is plus.
  • Optimization of algebraic operations in algorithms for HW cores is a plus.
  • Knowledge in neural network model quantization is a big plus.
  • Experience with Qualcomm QNN SDK is a big plus.

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