Principal AI Systems Engineer - LLM Inference (Cloud)

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 335,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking an ambitious software engineer for the Cloud AI team focusing on Inference Acceleration.

The role spans the full product life cycle from design to deployment in fast-paced environments requiring strong planning and communication. Ideal candidates will have proven experience with C++, Python, PyTorch, and ML accelerators, plus a solid understanding of LLMs, neural networks, and multi-core architectures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 8+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage and deliver large commercial software projects.
• Staff engineers across systems, software, integration and test.
• Analyze performance of software on multicore architectures.

Skills

C++

Python

PyTorch

Performance modeling

LLMs

Multi-core architectures

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

vLLM

CUDA

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking an ambitious software engineer for the Cloud AI team focusing on Inference Acceleration.

The role spans the full product life cycle from design to deployment in fast-paced environments requiring strong planning and communication. Ideal candidates will have proven experience with C++, Python, PyTorch, and ML accelerators, plus a solid understanding of LLMs, neural networks, and multi-core architectures.