Drimva

Qualcomm

LLM Serving Engineer (Cloud AI Engineering), Senior / Staff Engineer

$162K–$243K

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

Experience
4+ years with a bachelor's degree, 3+ years with a master's degree, or 2+ years with a PhD in a related field.
Education
Bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.

About the job

Build and optimize scalable LLM inference-serving systems and packages, collaborating with customers and internal teams from development through commercial deployment.

What you'll do

  • Develop scalable LLM inference platforms using serving, caching, parallelism, speculative decoding, model optimization, and kernel techniques.
  • Develop and contribute to LLM serving packages, and work with customers and internal compiler, firmware, and platform teams on solutions.
  • Improve serving efficiency through autoscaling, load balancing, routing, workload profiling, and optimization.

What they ask for

  • Hands-on experience with one or more LLM serving or orchestration packages, such as Triton-Inference Server, vLLM, or SGLang.
  • Strong Python and PyTorch development experience, with knowledge of transformer-based models and foundational LLMs.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, data structures, parallel and distributed programming.
  • Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years, master’s degree and 3+ years, or PhD and 2+ years of related work experience.

Nice to have

  • Open-source contributions to a GenAI package; experience architecting large-scale distributed systems.
  • Kernel design experience (PyTorch, CUDA, Triton), knowledge of torch.compile or torchDynamo, or a PhD in a related field.

Pay

$162,000.00 - $243,000.00 USD base salary

Tools

Python, PyTorch, Triton-Inference Server, vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, KServe, CUDA

AI focus

Develop and optimize LLM inference serving, including model optimization, serving algorithms, specialized kernels, and inference acceleration.

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