Senior Staff Engineer, CI/CD & Embedded HW Validation

Qualcomm; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 279,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to design and scale CI/CD pipelines and embedded hardware verification for the AI software stack, including QNN HTP and QAIRT. The role is hands-on, building large-scale automated pipelines and integrating DSP/NPU test execution with target-based regression infrastructure.

You will own coverage strategies, reduce flakiness, and influence DevOps and firmware teams while driving reproducible HW testing workflows and robust toolchains.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in CI/CD engineering, verification, embedded systems, or runtime/toolchain development.
• Expertise designing/scaling CI/CD (Buildkite, Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• Deep experience integrating embedded hardware into automated pipelines.
• Background in firmware flashing, device provisioning, power/reset automation, and board-farm debugging.
• Strong scripting/programming in Python, Bash, C/C++.
• Experience maintaining open-source verification pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale large-distributed CI/CD systems with high throughput and low flakiness.
• Design automated workflows: build, package, deploy, flash, run, log-collection, triage, dashboarding.
• Develop scheduling/orchestration layers for thousands of HW-based regression tests.
• Implement monitoring, telemetry, and automated mitigation for CI stability.
• Develop embedded target test frameworks across DSP/NPU.
• Automate flashing, provisioning, power/reset, and new chipset bring-up.
• Design hardware-in-loop validation for stability and performance.
• Maintain CI/verification pipelines for internal and open-source projects.

Skills

CI/CD engineering

Embedded systems

Verification

Python

Bash

C/C++

DevOps collaboration

AI stack

Open-source pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

PhD in CS/Engineering

Tools

Buildkite

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Board bring-up tooling

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to design and scale CI/CD pipelines and embedded hardware verification for the AI software stack, including QNN HTP and QAIRT. The role is hands-on, building large-scale automated pipelines and integrating DSP/NPU test execution with target-based regression infrastructure.

You will own coverage strategies, reduce flakiness, and influence DevOps and firmware teams while driving reproducible HW testing workflows and robust toolchains.