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This role drives platform adoption, AI-native development practices, machine learning enablement, AIOps automation, and cloud modernization initiatives. The individual will lead technical delivery, mentor engineers, establish engineering standards, and ensure highly scalable, secure, and intelligent data and AI platforms.\nThis role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA or Boulder, CO (5 days per week).\nThis role is not eligible for Qualcomm immigration sponsorship.\nKey Responsibilities\nDatabricks Platform Leadership\nDesign and implement scalable Lakehouse architectures using Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, and Serverless capabilities.\n\nDevelop reusable platform frameworks, accelerators, and automation capabilities.\n\nOptimize platform performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.\n\nDrive platform modernization and cloud-native engineering best practices.\n\nAI-Native Development\nPromote AI-assisted software engineering using Claude Code, GenAI, and automation frameworks.\n\nDevelop AI-powered engineering workflows to improve developer productivity and quality.\n\nImplement intelligent code generation, testing automation, root-cause analysis, and deployment optimization.\n\nEstablish best practices for AI-enabled SDLC and platform operations.\n\nMachine Learning & AI Enablement\nBuild and operationalize machine learning solutions using MLflow, Mosaic AI, Feature Engineering, and Model Serving.\n\nSupport predictive analytics, anomaly detection, forecasting, and intelligent automation use cases.\n\nImplement model lifecycle management and MLOps practices.\n\nCollaborate with AI teams to enable enterprise AI workloads on Databricks.\n\nAIOps & Reliability Engineering\nImplement observability, monitoring, and automated incident management solutions.\n\nBuild AI-driven operational insights for proactive issue detection and remediation.\n\nImprove platform reliability through self-healing automation and intelligent alerting.\n\nDrive reduction in operational toil through automation.\n\nTechnical Leadership\nLead technical design reviews and solution architecture discussions.\n\nMentor engineers and establish coding, testing, and deployment standards.\n\nDrive engineering excellence through automation and reusable frameworks.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nExperience\n8-12 years of overall IT experience.\n\n4-5 years of hands-on Databricks experience.\n\nStrong experience implementing enterprise cloud and AI platforms.\n\nTechnical Skills\nDatabricks Platform\n\nDelta Lake\n\nUnity Catalog\n\nMLflow\n\nMosaic AI\n\nPython, SQL, Spark\n\nDatabricks Workflows\n\nREST APIs\n\nGitHub\n\nCI/CD Automation\n\nAIOps and Observability Platforms\n\nGenerative AI tools and frameworks\n\nLeadership Competencies\nTechnical mentoring\n\nProblem solving and innovation\n\nCross-functional collaboration\n\nContinuous improvement mindset\n\nStrong communication skills\n\nSuccess Metrics\nPlatform availability and reliability\n\nAI adoption across engineering teams\n\nReduction in operational incidents\n\nDeployment automation maturity\n\nML use-case adoption\n\nCost optimization and utilization efficiency\n\n Minimum Qualifications:\n• 4+ years of IT-related work experience with a Bachelor's degree.OR\n7+ years of IT-related work experience without a Bachelor’s degree.\n*Completed advanced degrees in a relevant field may be substituted for up to two years (Master’s = one year, Doctorate = two years) of work experience.\nApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need an accommodation during the application/hiring process, rest assured that Qualcomm is committed to providing an accessible process. You may e-mail  or call Qualcomm's toll-free number found here. Upon request, Qualcomm will provide reasonable accommodations to support individuals with disabilities to be able participate in the hiring process. Qualcomm is also committed to making our workplace accessible for individuals with disabilities. (Keep in mind that this email address is used to provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).\nTo all Staffing and Recruiting Agencies:Our Careers Site is only for individuals seeking a job at Qualcomm. Staffing and recruiting agencies and individuals being represented by an agency are not authorized to use this site or to submit profiles, applications or resumes, and any such submissions will be considered unsolicited. Qualcomm does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications from agencies. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Qualcomm employees or any other company location. Qualcomm is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/applications.\nEEO Employer: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other protected classification.\nQualcomm expects its employees to abide by all applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to security and other requirements regarding protection of Company confidential information and other confidential and/or proprietary information, to the extent those requirements are permissible under applicable law.\nPay rangeand Other Compensation & Benefits :\n$119,600.00 - $179,400.00The above pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this job code for the location for which it has been posted. Even more importantly, please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Qualcomm. We also offer a competitive annual discretionary bonus program and opportunity for annual RSU grants (employees on sales-incentive plans are not eligible for our annual bonus). In addition, our highly competitive benefits package is designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play. 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