Drimva

Qualcomm

Senior Systems Engineer, Data Center AI

$118K–$177K

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

Experience
Bachelor's: 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience; master's: 1+ year; PhD: no experience specified.
Education
Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

About the job

Researches, develops, optimizes, and validates systems and AI solutions for Qualcomm data center inference accelerators and hybrid AI applications.

What you'll do

  • Develop and optimize AI/ML solutions for inference performance, power efficiency, and scalability across Qualcomm hardware and software.
  • Design, deploy, fine-tune, and evaluate Gen AI and LLM applications, including benchmarking models and optimizing workloads for deployment.
  • Research, design, and validate system-level software, hardware, architecture, and algorithms; troubleshoot system-level issues and verify AI system features.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience; OR master's degree in those fields and 1+ year of related experience; OR PhD in those fields.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
  • Deep understanding of ML development, deployment, and applications.
  • Deep understanding of system performance profiling and parallel computing.

Nice to have

  • Experience with fine-tuning GenAI models and Reinforcement Learning.
  • Background in compiler optimizations for ML workloads.

Pay

$117,800.00 - $176,600.00 USD base salary

Tools

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Git, Gerrit, GitHub, GitLab, Docker

AI focus

Develops and deploys AI/ML solutions for data center inference, including Gen AI and LLM applications, fine-tuning and distillation, model benchmarking, and workload optimization.

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