Lead AI SoC Architect for Cloud Data Centers

Qualcomm Incorporated; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 217,000 - 325,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA is seeking a senior Systems Architect to shape multiple generations of AI accelerators and data center SoC architectures.

You will translate workloads into scalable hardware and system solutions, lead cross‑functional teams, and drive performance, power, and memory bandwidth tradeoffs across product and platform teams. We value deep expertise in processor, accelerator, and memory systems, plus strong communication, mentorship, and the ability to guide

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 7+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across SoC and system architecture studies, product definition, and implementation guidance.
• Translate product and workload requirements into scalable SoC and system solutions.
• Develop SoC and system models and specifications, and drive feature-set requirements into technology, IP, platform, and software teams.
• Quantify system-level performance, power, area, cost, capacity, memory bandwidth, network topology/bandwidth/latency, and scalability tradeoffs, while driving analysis methods and tools.
• Follow designs through implementation and production, correlate observed system performance with models and targets, identify root causes of gaps, and drive performance to closure.
• Drive competitive analysis across SoC, platform, system, compute, memory, data center networking, software, and deployment considerations.
• Partner across architecture, design, systems, product, software, platform, and customer teams to influence roadmaps and deliver market-leading data center systems.
• Identify areas for innovations and drive development of patents.
• Provide team leadership and mentor technical contributors

Skills

System architecture

Performance modeling

Cross-team collaboration

C++/Python programming

Education

MS or PhD in EE/ECE/CE/CS

Bachelor's degree in EE/CS

Tools

C++

Python

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in San Diego, CA is seeking a senior Systems Architect to shape multiple generations of AI accelerators and data center SoC architectures.

You will translate workloads into scalable hardware and system solutions, lead cross‑functional teams, and drive performance, power, and memory bandwidth tradeoffs across product and platform teams. We value deep expertise in processor, accelerator, and memory systems, plus strong communication, mentorship, and the ability to guide