Qualcomm
Sr. Staff PCIE Subsystem Architect
$217K–$325K
San Diego, California +2 · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- San Diego, California
Austin, Texas
Santa Clara, California - Experience
- 8+ years with a bachelor's degree, 7+ years with a master's degree, or 6+ years with a PhD in Systems Engineering or related work; plus 2+ years in one or more system architecture technology areas and products.
- Education
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
About the job
Defines and delivers high-performance PCIe subsystem architectures for next-generation datacenter AI products, from accelerator cards and servers to rack-scale deployments.
What you'll do
- Define subsystem architecture and drive requirements across accelerator, server, and rack-scale systems.
- Address PCIe and other high-speed I/O behavior, including ordering, DMA, link operation, error recovery, and virtualization.
- Coordinate technical requirements and alignment with customers, product management, systems teams, and architecture stakeholders.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field and 8+ years of Systems Engineering or related work experience; OR a master's degree in one of those fields and 7+ years; OR a PhD in one of those fields and 6+ years.
- 2+ years of experience in one or more system architecture technology areas and products.
- In-depth knowledge of PCIe, Ethernet, and other high-speed I/O interfaces used in datacenter and accelerator products.
- Strong understanding of PCIe ordering, Gen6/Gen7 requirements, error containment and recovery, I/O virtualization, and server-class RAS, telemetry, reliability, and security.
Nice to have
- Understanding of PCIe security and confidential-compute features, PCIe CEM standards, retimers, signal integrity, and system validation.
- Knowledge of emerging interconnects such as UCIe, UALink/UAL, and UEC, and PCIe firmware, BIOS/UEFI, OS, driver, and system-software requirements.
Pay
$216,600.00 - $325,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, ARM, SR-IOV, SIOV, UCIe, UALink/UAL
AI focus
Architects high-performance I/O subsystems for next-generation datacenter AI products and accelerator systems.
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