# Data Center LLM Optimization Customer Engineer

Company: Qualcomm China Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Applications Engineering General Summary: The Data Center Customer Engineering team is seeking an experienced ML/Systems Engineer specializing in LLM inference optimization. This role works directly with strategic customers, partners, and internal engineering teams to deploy and optimize generative AI workloads on Qualcomm Cloud AI inference accelerators. The engineer will translate model-level requirements into efficient accelerator, memory, communication, and cluster configurations while driving measurable improvements in throughput, latency, scalability, power efficiency, and production reliability. Key Responsibilities · Deploy and optimize LLM and multimodal inference workloads on Qualcomm Cloud AI accelerator platforms from single accelerator to multi-node/rack-scale configurations. · Profile and optimize prefill and decode performance, including Time to First Token (TTFT), Time per Output Token (TPOT), inter-token latency, tokens/second, throughput per user, and performance per watt. · Analyze model architecture and runtime bottlenecks across compute, accelerator memory, host memory, KV cache,

- **Id**: 3951269
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/qualcomm-data-center-llm-optimization-customer-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Shanghai, China
- **Countries**: CN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T03:47:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7627
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, Autonomous Driving, RF & Wireless Hardware, Car Electronics

## Company

- **Id**: 94
- **Name**: Qualcomm
- **Domain**: qualcomm.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/qualcomm>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 70
- **Open postings**: 1059
- **Ghost share**: 0.25
- **Stale share**: 0.146
- **Repost share**: 0.449
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 74
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Speculative Decoding** — Optional: no
- **TPOT** — Optional: no
- **Transformers** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **DeepSeek** — Optional: yes
- **DeepSpeed** — Optional: yes
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: yes
- **InfiniBand** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **Llama** — Optional: yes
- **Mistral** — Optional: yes
- **Mixtral** — Optional: yes
- **Mixture of Experts** — Optional: yes
- **Qwen** — Optional: yes
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: yes
- **SGLang** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: yes
- **vLLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T03:47:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 74
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T04:23:05Z

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