Drimva

Qualcomm

Datacenter AI Systems and Solutions Engineer, Sr Staff

$170K–$255K

San Diego, California · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026

Experience
6+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 5+ years with a master’s degree, or 4+ years with a PhD in Systems Engineering or related work.
Education
Bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.

About the job

Leads the design, development, deployment, and optimization of AI datacenter systems and generative AI applications using Qualcomm hardware, software, and ecosystem components.

What you'll do

  • Develop and optimize end-to-end AI/ML solutions for inference performance, power efficiency, and scalability.
  • Lead model benchmarking, workload analysis, system architecture, debugging, and hardware/software co-design.
  • Serve as a technical lead for customer deployments, including model onboarding, inference optimization, and performance tuning.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 6+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience; OR master’s degree and 5+ years; OR PhD and 4+ years.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and experience with ML frameworks, APIs, REST services, and microservice-based architecture.
  • Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating AI/ML systems in production.
  • Experience with AI inference serving, performance optimization, and scalability across heterogeneous hardware.

Nice to have

  • Experience with cluster schedulers and resource managers such as Slurm or PBS.
  • Experience with GenAI model fine-tuning and optimization, reinforcement learning, or rack-level orchestration.

Pay

$169,800.00 - $254,600.00 (USD, base salary)

Tools

Python, ML frameworks, REST services, Docker, Kubernetes, Slurm, PBS, GitOps

AI focus

Develops and optimizes generative AI and LLM applications, inference systems, and model fine-tuning, distillation, and optimization for deployment on target hardware.

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