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Principal Engineer/Senior Staff Engineer- CPU Software & Hardware Co-Design Engineer (ML Systems)

BengaluruFull-time8–14 yrsPosted over a month ago

Leadership software engineering role at Qualcomm in Bengaluru. Needs 8+ years and a B.Tech, B.E. or B.Sc.

About the role

CPU Software & Hardware Co-Design Engineer (ML Systems) This role focuses on CPU software–hardware co-design for next-generation QMX architectures , including workload characterization, simulation, kernel optimization, and driving architectural insights for future CPU designs. The ideal candidate will work across the full stack—from ML models to low-level kernels to architectural feedback—enabling efficient execution of ML workloads on CPU platforms .

What you'll do

  • ML Workload Identification & Characterization
  • Identify and prioritize critical ML use cases and models for CPU-centric execution (LLMs, vision, speech, recommender systems, etc.)
  • Analyze workload characteristics including: Compute intensity
  • Memory bandwidth and cache behavior
  • Parallelism and dataflow patterns

What you need

  • Machine learning
  • Hardware
  • Java
  • Python
  • C++
  • C

Good to have

  • LLMs
  • PyTorch

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