AI Software Applications Engineer

Company:

Qualcomm Semiconductor Limited

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering

General Summary:

Qualcomm is seeking a Software Application Engineer to join our AI Cloud team in Taiwan. In this role, you will work with highly motivated engineers and industry leaders across the Asia/USA region to design and develop Enterprise AI applications based on Qualcomm AI Cloud, Data Center, and On-Prem AI solutions. You will help customers deploy and scale generative AI, computer vision, and audio AI workloads across cloud, data center, and on-premises environments, enabling secure, high-performance, and cost-effective AI infrastructure for enterprise use cases.

Qualcomm's AI platforms combine industry-leading hardware acceleration with the Qualcomm AI Inference SDK and comprehensive software frameworks to simplify AI deployment, optimize performance and energy efficiency, and automate critical business workflows. These solutions provide customers with the flexibility to run AI workloads wherever their data and business requirements demand, from enterprise data centers and cloud environments to secure on-premises deployments.

Key Responsibilities in this role:

·       Deliver technical expertise on AI software systems through technical presentations to support business development and product demonstrations.

·       Design and develop customer-specific requirements and assist in the commercialization and maintenance of Qualcomm products.

·       Collaborate with cross-functional teams and customers to address questions, issues, debugging, and troubleshooting related to software systems and applications.

·       Gather customer insights and challenges, and regularly share them with product, engineering, and marketing teams to support roadmap improvement.

·       Support customers in deploying and optimizing AI models on Cloud, Data Center, and On-Prem Appliance using the Qualcomm AI SDK.

·       Build and customize proof-of-concept (POC) demos based on customer use cases to validate technical feasibility, support pre-sales activities, and drive solution commercialization.

Minimum Qualifications

·       Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or a closely related field

·       Experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Python etc.

·       Experience with using machine learning framework such as PyTorch

·       Excellent communication and team working skills

·       Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and quickly learn new technologies and willingness to work with customers

Preferred Qualifications

·       Knowledge of server-related topics such as Thermal management and BMC/IPMI management

·       Knowledge of Generative AI and Agentic AI related

·       Familiar with container technologies such as Docker

·       Hands-on experience in deploying and optimizing AI model on edge devices

·       Hands-on experience with open-source LLM inference and serving software such as vLLM

·       Hands-on experience in developing and debugging embedded systems such as Linux is a plus

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
OR
Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Applications Engineering, Software Development experience, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
• 1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with debugging techniques.

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