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In this role, you will leverage Qualcomm Cloud AI toolchains to rapidly bring up industry-leading AI workloads, analyze performance bottlenecks, drive model accuracy and performance optimization, and deliver best-in-class inference efficiency for cloud-scale AI deployments.\nKey Responsibilities\nDeploy and optimize LLM, MoE, and multimodal models on Qualcomm Cloud AI platforms.\nAnalyze and improve model accuracy, latency, throughput, memory utilization, and scalability.\nDrive graph-level, framework-level, and system-level optimizations.\nBenchmark AI workloads and identify performance bottlenecks across the software and hardware stack.\nWork closely with compiler, runtime, kernel, and architecture teams to improve model enablement and performance.\nSupport customer deployment, bring-up, performance tuning, and production readiness.\nRequired Qualifications\nMaster's degree or above in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or related fields.\nGood verbal and written English communication skills to effectively collaborate across global teams.\nStrong experience with Python, C++, and Linux development environments.\n5+ years of experience in Cloud AI, LLM deployment, or AI infrastructure.\nDeep understanding of Transformer architectures, LLMs, and MoE models.\nStrong experience in graph optimization and model compilation workflows.\nStrong experience in model accuracy and performance optimization.\nStrong experience with one or more AI frameworks, including PyTorch, ONNX, TensorFlow, or JAX.\nExperience with AI serving frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, TGI, TensorRT-LLM, or LMDeploy.\nPreferred Qualifications\nFamiliarity with AI accelerator platforms and large-scale inference systems.\nExperience with Quantization, KV-Cache optimization, speculative decoding, continuous batching, Prefix Caching, Parallelism Strategies and distributed inference.\nExperience with performance modeling and analysis methodologies, including Roofline analysis, bottleneck identification across software and hardware stacks.\nFamiliarity with open-source inference frameworks such as llama.cpp, Ollama, or MLC-LLM.\nExperience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native AI infrastructure.\nMinimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.OR\nMaster's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.\nOR\nPhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.\n• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.\nQualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. 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