Qualcomm
Principal Customer Engineering (CE) Lead – Server Processor Platforms
$200K–$300K
Santa Clara, California · On-site · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years with a bachelor’s, 7+ years with a master’s, or 6+ years with a PhD; preferred: 10+ years in server platform design, bring-up, or customer-facing technical roles.
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
About the job
Leads customer engineering support for server processor SoC adoption, serving as the technical interface between strategic customers and internal teams from design through deployment and mass production.
What you'll do
- Lead customer hardware support and review schematics, PCB layouts, thermal designs, power delivery, and signal integrity plans.
- Support interface validation and debug, and coordinate with internal teams to resolve customer challenges and feedback.
- Develop customer documentation and training, improve support processes, and help shape the growing server CE team.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field, or a Master’s or PhD in those fields.
- Hardware Applications Engineering or Hardware Design experience: 8+ years with a bachelor’s, 7+ years with a master’s, or 6+ years with a PhD.
Nice to have
- 10+ years in server platform design, bring-up, or customer-facing technical roles; experience supporting hyperscalers, OEMs, or ODMs.
- Expertise in high-speed board design, system bring-up/debug tools, firmware interactions, server standards, or scripting.
Pay
$200,200.00 - $300,200.00 (base salary)
Tools
DDR, PCIe Gen6/Gen7, CXL, Ethernet, DDR5, SerDes, UEFI, BMC
AI focus
Supports server platforms for AI/ML workloads; AI/ML is listed as a bonus area of experience.
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