Staff Engineer
Qualcomm
Staff Engineer
Qualcomm
Designs mobile chips and licenses wireless patents
General Summary:
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Staff Engineer to drive the design, development, and scaling of GenAI-powered platforms, agentic workflows, and AI-native SDLC capabilities across CPSE. This role will be central to transforming GenAI from pilot initiatives into production-grade, enterprise-scale capabilities, enabling engineering teams to accelerate development, improve quality, and operationalize AI-driven workflows.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 4+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.Key Responsibilities
Platform, Skills & Integration Development - Design and build GenAI platform capabilities, including reusable AI skills and agents MCP servers and orchestration frameworks Tooling and integrations for internal platforms and enterprise data sources Ensure seamless integration with development, testing, and operational systems.
Reusable Assets & Enterprise Adoption - Develop and curate reusable prompts, skills, and workflows to accelerate adoption across engineering teams. Establish validation frameworks to ensure quality, accuracy, and robustness of AI-driven assets. Drive standardization and reuse across teams and business units
Enterprise AI Workflow Operationalization & Agentification - Lead the operationalization of QGenie-based workflows across CPSE use cases. Transform and agentify existing engineering workflows into scalable, reusable AI-driven solutions. Identify and prioritize high-impact workflows for automation and AI enablement across teams
Agentic SDLC Transformation - Define and implement agent-driven SDLC workflows spanning: Coding and code generation Code review and validation Test automation and coverage Release and deployment orchestration Debugging and root-cause analysis Production monitoring and operations Enable end-to-end automation and intelligent orchestration across the SDLC lifecycle.
Governance, Observability & Traceability - Establish frameworks for: AI governance and compliance Observability of GenAI systems Traceability of decisions and outputs Ensure enterprise readiness with security, auditability, and reliability in production environments.
Cross-Org Collaboration & Scale-Out - Partner with QGenie teams, Business Units (BUs), and GEO organizations to: Drive adoption across regions Align on platform capabilities and priorities Enable scaling from pilots to enterprise-wide deployment Act as a technical leader and evangelist for AI-native engineering transformation.
Required
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8–12 years of experience in software engineering or platform development.
- Strong hands-on experience in:
- Distributed systems, cloud platforms, and APIs
- AI/ML systems, LLMs, or GenAI frameworks
- Developer tools, CI/CD, and SDLC processes
- Proven track record of building scalable platforms or frameworks used across teams.
### Preferred
- Experience in:
- Agentic systems, workflow orchestration, or AI copilots
- Prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and LLM integrations
- Observability platforms and production AI systems
- Exposure to enterprise-scale AI adoption programs or platform engineering
Leadership Expectations
- Demonstrates technical depth and architectural leadership.
- Drives cross-functional initiatives with measurable business impact.
- Mentors engineers and shapes organization-wide engineering practices.
- Brings a data-driven approach to evaluating AI effectiveness and adoption.
Impact & Scope
- Direct impact on scaling GenAI adoption across thousands of engineers.
- Enables standardized, reusable, and production-ready AI capabilities.
- Plays a critical role in transforming CPSE into an AI-first engineering organization.
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Qualcomm designs the Snapdragon processors and modems inside many Android phones, and it licenses its wireless patents to device makers around the world. It helped commercialize CDMA, the cellular technology behind 3G networks, and its patents cover core parts of the 4G and 5G standards that phones use to connect. The company does not run its own chip factories; contract foundries make its chips, which it sells to makers of phones, PCs, cars, and connected devices. Device makers also pay Qualcomm royalties for using its patented technology, which forms a second business alongside chip sales. Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.
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