Principal Engineer, AI Platform Software Architecture

About the role

Principal Engineer, AI Platform Software Architecture at Qualcomm. Define and drive the long-term platform software architecture and technical strategy for AI inferencing across Qualcomm's portfolio of edge AI products.

What you'll do

• Lead cross-functional architectural initiatives involving software, hardware, AI accelerator, security
• Collaborate with product management, customers, and silicon architecture teams to understand emerging AI workloads, product requirements, and technology trends
• Drive hardware/software co-design and influence future platform capabilities through architectural analysis, technical proposals, and strategic technology planning
• Lead system-level architecture and engineering efforts spanning operating systems, AI runtimes, memory systems, virtualization, security, interconnects
• Evaluate architectural alternatives, perform tradeoff analysis, and develop architecture proposals and specifications that balance performance, power, scalability

What you need

• 15–27 yrs of experience
• Python
• LLMs
• C++
• Design systems
• C
• Java
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or M.Tech or PhD

Good to have

• Linux