AI Solutions Architect for Edge-to-Cloud Systems

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing & transport allowance

Stock RSUs and performance bonus

Maternity leave (16 weeks)

Paternity leave (6 weeks)

Employee stock purchase scheme

Child education allowance

Relocation support

Life and medical insurance

Wellness reimbursement

Job summary

Qualcomm Engineering FZ LLC seeks a highly experienced Solutions Architect to drive AI-powered solution adoption across the Middle East. You will design, architect, and deploy end-to-end intelligent systems spanning edge devices, IoT platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML workloads, including drones and smart city applications.

You will guide architecture decisions across hardware, software, connectivity, and cloud services, collaborating with customers, partners, and internal teams to shape

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 3+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of work experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end AI and digital transformation solutions from edge devices to cloud platforms.
• Translate customer requirements into scalable technical architectures and deployment strategies.
• Drive architecture decisions across hardware, software, connectivity, AI models, cloud services, and system integration.
• Enable deployment and optimization of AI/ML workloads across Edge and Cloud environments.
• Understand trade-offs involving latency, power consumption, model accuracy, memory constraints, and system performance.
• Guide customers on AI model deployment, optimization, quantization, inference acceleration, and system scaling.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the customer journey, from discovery and PoC to deployment and production scaling.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define solution roadmaps and success metrics.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and executive-level discussions.
• Architect scalable cloud-native and hybrid solutions supporting millions of connected devices.
• Design data pipelines, data lakes, analytics platforms, and AI-enabled backend services.
• Develop architectures supporting high availability, security, multi-tenancy, and enterprise-grade scalability.

Skills

Solution Architecture

AI/ML Systems

Edge Computing

Cloud Platforms

IoT Platforms

Distributed Systems

Data Engineering

Software Architecture

Programming Languages (C/C++/Java/Py)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IS

Master's degree in Engineering/CS/IS

PhD in Engineering/CS/IS

Job description

Qualcomm Engineering FZ LLC seeks a highly experienced Solutions Architect to drive AI-powered solution adoption across the Middle East. You will design, architect, and deploy end-to-end intelligent systems spanning edge devices, IoT platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML workloads, including drones and smart city applications.

You will guide architecture decisions across hardware, software, connectivity, and cloud services, collaborating with customers, partners, and internal teams to shape