Principal SW Engineer - LLM Serving (Cloud AI)

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

Company

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

General Summary

Job Description

The Qualcomm Cloud AI team is developing software solutions for Inference Acceleration.

We are seeking an ambitious, bright and innovative engineer who has delivered commercial software and experience spanning design, compiler technology, performance modeling, and bottleneck analysis.

Job activities span the whole product life cycle from early R&D to commercial deployment. The environment is fast-paced and requires cross-functional interaction on a daily basis so good communication, planning and execution skills are a must.

We are looking to staff engineers at multiple levels in systems & software, integration and test. Details of one of the roles we are looking to staff are listed below.

Backfill position

Minimum 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.
• OR
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 7+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• OR
• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Ideal candidates for this position will demonstrate the following

• Proven ability of planning, managing and deliver large commercial software projects
• Experience in serving frameworks, like vLLM
• Strong development skills in PyTorch
• Strong understanding of LLMs, Multi-modal and reasoning models
• Experience in executing, analyzing, and optimizing neural networks
• Experience in writing high performance software for multicore systems
• Experience with C++, Python
• Strong skills in analyzing performance of software/hardware solutions on multi-core architectures; understanding of multi-core architecture fundamentals (core, cache, memory, bus, PCIe, etc)
• Understanding of multi-core processor architecture and SoC architectures (NoCs, caches, memories, etc.)
• Experience with Performance modeling of SoC architectures
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and team player
• Experience with machine learning accelerators and related software is highly desired
• Background and understanding of neural network operators and mathematical operations: linear algebra, math libraries, desirable
• Master's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Networks & Systems and/or Computer Science

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$223,600.00 - $335,400.00

The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.