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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