Staff Software Engineer — CI, Build & Release

Qualcomm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 158,400 - 237,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive annual discretionary bonus

Annual RSU grants

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Qualcomm is seeking a highly skilled engineer to manage CI, build, and release processes for the Delegates portfolio. The role involves designing multi-platform CI pipelines and ensuring high-quality software delivery for Snapdragon SoCs. Candidates should have considerable experience in software development, CI/CD practices, and extensive Python and Bash expertise.

This role requires collaboration across engineering teams and effective communication skills. The position is based in San Diego, California, providing a competitive salary and benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software/DevOps/release engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with cross-platform CI integrations.
• Deep experience with multi-platform build and release ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain CI pipelines for multi-platform builds.
• Own the release pipeline and automate quality gates.
• Coordinate with engineer teams for effective collaboration.

Skills

Expert-level Python

Bash scripting

AI coding agent integration

CI/CD platforms experience

Effective communication skills

Education

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

Master's degree

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

JIRA

Job description

General Summary

As part of the AISW engineering team at Qualcomm, you will own the CI, build, and release infrastructure for the Delegates portfolio — ONNX Runtime, ExecuTorch, and TFLite / LiteRT. You will ensure fast, reliable, high-quality software delivery across Linux, Windows, and Android targets leverage off-device and on-target hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) validation for Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, directly enabling the team's ability to ship to strategic ISV partners and align with upstream framework release cadences.

Minimum Qualifications (Education)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

What You'll Do

CI & Build Infrastructure

• Design, own, and evolve multi-platform CI pipelines for ORT QNN-EP, ExecuTorch, and LiteRT delegates across Linux, Windows (ARM64/x86), and Android.
• Maintain hermetic, reproducible build recipes and toolchains; manage cross-platform dependencies and toolchain versioning across all Delegates targets.
• Integrate HIL and on-device automated testing into CI workflows for Snapdragon SoC validation at scale.
• Drive the agentic transformation by embedding AI-assisted tooling (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex) into CI and developer workflows to improve team velocity.

Release Engineering

• Own the end-to-end release pipeline: versioning strategy, artifact packaging (Python wheels, shared libraries, Android AARs), signed binary distribution, and release gate criteria.
• Define and enforce automated quality gates — regression benchmarks, performance thresholds, op-coverage checks — aligned with ORT, ExecuTorch, and LiteRT upstream cadences.
• Coordinate SDK artifact delivery with the QAIRT SDK release train and downstream ISV partners.

Test Automation & Quality

• Partner with delegate engineers to build automated functional, performance, and regression test suites covering op coverage, numerical accuracy, and latency.
• Develop dashboards and alerting for build health, test pass rates, and performance trends; integrate with JIRA for automated defect tracking and release readiness reporting.

Developer Experience & Collaboration

• Streamline inner-loop workflows: local build scripts, container images, pre-commit hooks, and environment bootstrapping that mirror CI behavior.
• Maintain CI runbooks and documentation for a globally distributed team; align all CI/build infrastructure with Qualcomm Corporate tooling standards.
• Coordinate with upstream open-source communities (ORT, ExecuTorch, LiteRT) to track breaking changes and contribute automation improvements back upstream.

Minimum Qualifications (Skills)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and 8+ years of software/DevOps/release engineering experience — or — Master's degree and 6+ years.
• Expert-level Python and Bash scripting.
• Hands-on experience integrating an AI coding agent (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Codex) into a CI or development workflow.
• Deep experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, or similar) and Git-based SCM workflows.
• Proven end-to-end ownership of build, release, and deployment pipelines in a multi-platform environment.
• Exposure to JIRA or equivalent for defect tracking and sprint-based triage.
• Effective communication skills (verbal, written, presentation).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ML framework build systems — ONNX Runtime, ExecuTorch, or TFLite / LiteRT.
• C/C++ build and debugging proficiency (CMake, Bazel, or equivalent).
• Experience with Android NDK, cross-compilation and packaging / release logistics (Maven, Gradle, …)
• Experience with Windows CI/CD pipelines and Windows ARM64 build toolchains.
• Experience with Agile development environments.
• Working knowledge of DL inference pipelines and on-device performance profiling.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across a globally distributed, multi-timezone engineering organization.

Level of Responsibility

• Operates at Staff level: sets technical direction for CI, build, and release infrastructure across a multi-framework Delegates portfolio.
• Makes independent architectural decisions with broad impact spanning Delegates delivery, QAIRT SDK integration, and ISV release pipelines.
• Accountable for release readiness signals surfaced to Program Management; a key voice in release go/no-go decisions.
• Drives cross-functional alignment on CI standards across Engineering, PgM, and Product; influences global AISW CI practices.

EEO Statement – Disability Accommodations

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Equal Opportunity Statement

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits

$158,400.00 - $237,600.00

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.