Principal SW Engineer - LLM Serving (Cloud AI)

Location: San Diego, California, United States of America

Department: Machine Learning Engineering

Work Location: onsite

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Machine Learning Engineering

General Summary:

Backfill position

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 8+ 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 7+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.

Ideal candidates for this position will demonstrate the following:

• Proven ability of planning, managing and deliver large commercial software projects

• Experience in serving frameworks, like vLLM

• Strong development skills in PyTorch

• Strong understanding of LLMs, Multi-modal and reasoning models

• Experience in executing, analyzing, and optimizing neural networks

• Experience in writing high performance software for multicore systems

• Experience with C++, Python

• Strong skills in analyzing performance of software/hardware solutions on multi-core architectures; understanding of multi-core architecture fundamentals (core, cache, memory, bus, PCIe, etc)

• Understanding of multi-core processor architecture and SoC architectures (NoCs, caches, memories, etc.)

• Experience with Performance modeling of SoC architectures

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and team player

• Experience with machine learning accelerators and related software is highly desired

• Background and understanding of neural network operators and mathematical operations: linear algebra, math libraries, desirable

• Master's, Computer Engineering and/or Computer Networks & Systems and/or Computer Science

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$200,800.00 - $301,200.00

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 – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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