Qualcomm
Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Model Enablement & Software Tools
$194K–$292K
San Diego, California · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years with a bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years with a master’s degree or PhD in software design, development, and delivery; also requires 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML software development, model inference, model optimization, compiler technologies, or related systems software.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; OR Master’s degree or PhD in a related field.
About the job
Leads a small team while designing and delivering reusable software to adapt, quantize, compile, and run modern AI models on Snapdragon platforms.
What you'll do
- Lead model bring-up and develop scalable model-enablement pipelines, graph optimizations, quantization recipes, and compilation and execution flows.
- Evaluate model accuracy and performance, and debug issues across model, framework, compiler, runtime, operating system, and hardware layers.
- Set technical direction, coordinate delivery across initiatives, review engineering work, and mentor team members.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and 8+ years of software design, development, and delivery experience; OR Master’s degree or PhD in a related field and 6+ years of that experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML software development, model inference, model optimization, compiler technologies, or related systems software.
- Proficiency in Python and C/C++; strong experience with PyTorch and ONNX model representations and tooling.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including leading a small team, mentoring engineers, and driving complex projects end-to-end; proficiency with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience bringing up AI models on embedded, edge, mobile, or accelerator-based platforms, or designing model-enablement pipelines.
- Experience with AIMET or equivalent, Hugging Face Transformers, compiler/runtime frameworks, or Snapdragon SoCs and AI accelerators.
Pay
$194,400.00 - $291,600.00 USD (pay range; salary)
Tools
Python, C/C++, PyTorch, ONNX, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, AIMET, Hugging Face Transformers
AI focus
Enables LLM, vision, and multimodal models on Snapdragon platforms through model adaptation, graph transformation, quantization, compilation, and hardware-aware execution optimization.
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