Sr. Engineer, AI Platforms and Solutions
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Artificial Intelligence
In short
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join Qualcomm's Enterprise AI Platform and Solutions team. You will contribute to designing, developing, and delivering next-generation AI-powered applications and platform capabilities. This fast-paced role requires strong ownership and the ability to deliver production-quality solutions under tight deadlines.
Responsibilities
- Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, including document ingestion, indexing, embeddings, vector search, reranking, retrieval optimization, grounding, and evaluation frameworks.
- Develop and integrate LLM-powered capabilities, agents, and AI services into enterprise applications.
- Design, develop, and enhance end-to-end AI-powered enterprise applications, including backend services, APIs, agentic workflows, and modern user experiences.
- Architect, deploy, and operate scalable cloud-native AI solutions on Kubernetes and public cloud platforms.
- Design and implement APIs, MCP-compatible services, enterprise connectors, and integration layers.
- Build and maintain production-ready CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, observability, monitoring, tracing, and operational tooling.
- Optimize system performance across application, retrieval, inference, and data-processing layers.
- Collaborate with AI/ML, platform, infrastructure, security, and product teams to deliver robust AI solutions and establish engineering best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience; OR Master's degree and 1+ year of experience; OR PhD.
- 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.
Desired Qualifications
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, C#.NET, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Node.js, HTML, and CSS.
- Experience designing and building full-stack applications, including user interfaces, backend services, APIs, data integration layers, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience developing, integrating, or deploying AI-powered applications utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search, or agentic workflows.
- Experience building enterprise search, retrieval, indexing, or knowledge management solutions using modern search technologies, vector databases, embeddings, or related capabilities.
- Experience developing and deploying cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, with familiarity in containerized and Kubernetes-based environments.
- Strong understanding of API design, microservices architectures, application integration patterns, authentication, authorization, and frontend/backend interaction.
- Experience debugging across both traditional systems and AI/LLM-driven behavior.
- Familiarity with tracing/observability tools for LLM systems.
- Experience with Elasticsearch / vector search.
- Docker / Kubernetes exposure.
- Experience with multi-agent systems and evaluation frameworks.
Benefits
- Competitive annual discretionary bonus program.
- Opportunity for annual RSU grants.
- Highly competitive benefits package designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play.
Skills
PythonJavaC#.NETRustJavaScriptTypeScriptReact.jsAngularNode.jsHTMLCSSLLMRAGKubernetesAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformAPIsmicroservicesElasticsearchDocker
#AI Platforms#AI Solutions#Software Engineering#LLM#RAG#Cloud-Native#Kubernetes#API#Microservices
About Qualcomm
Enabling a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected.
Enabling a world where everyone and everything can be intelligently connected.\n\n
Company
QualcommJob Posted
6 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Salary
US$117,800–176,600 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
San Diego, United States of America
Qualification
Bachelor, Master, Doctoral
Applicants
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