Senior AI Platform Engineer – Enterprise LLM & RAG

JobCubby; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Incorporated is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer for the Enterprise AI Platform and Solutions team in San Diego, CA. You will contribute to design, development, and delivery of AI-powered applications and reusable platform capabilities across the enterprise.

This on-site, full-time role focuses on building scalable, production-grade AI solutions, integrating LLMs, and delivering robust knowledge management and automation capabilities for enterprise workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 2+ years in Software Engineering.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field with 1+ year in Software Engineering.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of experience with programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, including document ingestion, indexing, embeddings, vector search, reranking, retrieval optimization, grounding, and evaluation frameworks.
• Develop and integrate LLM‑powered capabilities, agents, and AI services into enterprise applications to improve knowledge discovery, automation, productivity, and business workflows.
• Design, develop, and enhance end‑to‑end AI‑powered enterprise applications, including backend services, APIs, agentic workflows, and modern user experiences.
• Architect, deploy, and operate scalable cloud‑native AI solutions on Kubernetes and public cloud platforms, ensuring high availability, security, reliability, and performance at enterprise scale.
• Design and implement APIs, MCP‑compatible services, enterprise connectors, and integration layers that expose AI, search, and platform capabilities across applications.
• Build and maintain production‑ready CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, observability, monitoring, tracing, and operational tooling for AI applications and platform services.
• Optimize system performance across application, retrieval, inference, and data‑processing layers, including latency, throughput, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with AI/ML, platform, infrastructure, security, and product teams to deliver robust, production‑grade AI solutions while establishing engineering best practices, governance, and operational excellence.

Skills

Python

Java

C#.NET

Rust

JavaScript

TypeScript

React.js

Angular

Node.js

HTML/CSS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS

Master's degree in Engineering/CS

PhD in Engineering/CS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Elasticsearch

Vector databases

Job description

Qualcomm Incorporated is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer for the Enterprise AI Platform and Solutions team in San Diego, CA. You will contribute to design, development, and delivery of AI-powered applications and reusable platform capabilities across the enterprise.

This on-site, full-time role focuses on building scalable, production-grade AI solutions, integrating LLMs, and delivering robust knowledge management and automation capabilities for enterprise workflows.