Senior AI Platform Engineer – RAG, LLMs & Cloud

Qualcomm; 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 its Enterprise AI Platform and Solutions team in San Diego, CA. The role demands strong ownership and the ability to deliver production-quality AI solutions on a tight timeline, onsite five days a week.

The ideal candidate will contribute to design, development, and delivery of next-generation AI-powered apps, developer experiences, and reusable platform capabilities across the enterprise, collaborating with AI/ML,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.
• PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

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.

Job description

Qualcomm Incorporated is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer for its Enterprise AI Platform and Solutions team in San Diego, CA. The role demands strong ownership and the ability to deliver production-quality AI solutions on a tight timeline, onsite five days a week.

The ideal candidate will contribute to design, development, and delivery of next-generation AI-powered apps, developer experiences, and reusable platform capabilities across the enterprise, collaborating with AI/ML,