Engineer, Staff - Ambient AI Technology - Qualcomm

Polluxa, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead ambient perception frameworks and context-aware engines across ARM-based platforms. You will define architecture and low-power AI runtimes for edge devices and shape the next generation of on-device intelligence.

Collaborate with software, hardware, and AI teams, drive technical roadmaps, and mentor engineers while ensuring secure data delivery and cross-platform integration across Android, Linux, XR, automotive, and IoT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science; 4+ years of software engineering or related work experience.
• 2+ years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design and technical roadmaps for ambient perception frameworks.
• Guide cross-functional engineering initiatives across software, hardware, and AI.
• Architect SDKs, middleware, or platform frameworks for AI-enabled applications.
• Drive on-device AI workload optimization across CPU, DSP, NPU, and GPU architectures.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Software architecture

ARM architectures

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Job description

General Summary

Qualcomm is a global leader in intelligent computing, connectivity, and edge AI technologies. Our Snapdragon platforms power the next generation of mobile, compute, automotive, XR, IoT, and connected devices. As part of Qualcomm’s software organization, you will work with a world-class team of hardware, systems, AI, and software engineers to define and deliver the future of always-on, context-aware, and agentic AI experiences on power-constrained edge devices.

The Ambient Perception Platform team is responsible for the architecture, development, integration, optimization, and commercialization of the Ambient Perception Platform across Android, Linux, Windows, XR, automotive, and IoT platforms powered by Qualcomm SoCs. Our mission is to enable intelligent, low-power, context-aware experiences that continuously understand user intent, environmental context, and device state while maintaining industry-leading battery efficiency and privacy.

We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Engineers to lead the architecture and evolution of next-generation Ambient Perception frameworks, context awareness engines, multimodal data collection systems, secure data delivery and storage architectures, and low-power AI runtime platforms. This role offers an opportunity to influence the software architecture that powers future AI assistants, proactive experiences, multimodal sensing systems, autonomous edge intelligence solutions, and heterogeneous computing frameworks that operate efficiently across CPU, DSP, NPU across Qualcomm’s product portfolio.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 8–12+ years of combined software architecture, embedded systems development, and platform integration experience.
• Strong programming skills in C, C++, and Python.
• Experience developing software on ARM-based and heterogeneous SoC architectures.
• Proven experience leading architecture design, technical roadmaps, and cross-functional engineering initiatives.
• Experience architecting SDKs, middleware, or platform frameworks for AI-enabled applications.
• Strong understanding of Ambient Perception, context-aware computing, and multimodal sensing systems.
• Knowledge of On-Device AI workload optimization across CPU, DSP, NPU, and GPU architectures.
• Experience developing software on ARM, DSP and heterogenous …???