Senior Engineer, Machine Learning Engineering_

San Diego

**Company:**

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

**Job Area:**

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

**General Summary:**

Qualcomm AI Research is looking for talented AI software engineers for enabling AI technologies on edge devices. This is your opportunity to join a high-caliber team of engineers building best-in-class AI solutions with model optimization tools such as Qualcomm Innovation Center’s AI Model Efficiency Toolkit (om/quic/aimet) to deploy state-of-the-art models to edge devices with optimal power, memory, and computation use.

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team that has been continually enabled 1st of its kind or competitive generative AI models on Qualcomm AI accelerator engines, such as the world first on device text to image generation with stable diffusion, and text-2-text with 7B large language model on device etc. You will collaborate in a cross-functional environment spanning hardware, software and systems and see your design in action on industry-leading chips embedded in the next generation of intelligent devices, such as smartphones, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and IOT devices.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

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

OR

PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.

**Responsibility:**

+ Development of end-2-end embedded AI software to run quantized neural network models on Qualcomm leading edge hardware with optimal resource

+ Design and enhance the implementation of ML/AI SW stack, kernels, and runtime software to improve performance and power efficiency

+ Collaborating with AI Processor Hardware team and high quality implementation of new ML operators/layers to optimal utilizing new capabilities in next-gen AI processor

+ Development of debugging/profiling tools and user-friendly SDK for customers to rapid deployment of their new use cases

**Preferred Skills and Experience:**

+ Related field at least 3 years of work experience.

+ Excellent programming capability with C/C++ and Python

+ Knowledge on deep learning and frameworks PyTorch

+ Strong software design, development, and debugging skills

+ Knowledge in Android programming is plus

+ Optimization of algebraic operations in algorithms for HW cores is a plus

+ Knowledge in neural network model quantization is a big plus

+ Experience on Qualcomm QNN SDK is a big plus

Although this role has some expected minor physical activity, this should not deter otherwise qualified applicants from applying. If you are an individual with a physical or mental disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, please call Qualcomm’s toll-free number found here (ervice-now.com/hrpublic?id=hr\_public\_article\_view&sysparm\_article=KB0039028) for assistance. Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations, upon request, to support individuals with disabilities as part of our ongoing efforts to create an accessible workplace.

Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.

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**Pay range:**

$133,000.00 - $200,000.00

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!

If you would like more information about this role, please contact Qualcomm Careers (ualcomm.com/contact/corporate) .

EEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification