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The position focuses on rapid prototyping, agentic AI workflows, software architecture, experimentation, and system integration, helping bridge research and product through robust demos and internal tools.\nWhat You’llDo\nDevelop prototype applications and system componentsthat showcaseadvanced AI capabilities.\n\nCollaborate with AI researchers to transform emerging AI technologies into compelling end-to-end experiences.\n\nRapidly prototype and evaluate new agent architectures, workflows, and user experiences.\n\nBuild proof-of-concept systems that integrate AI agents with mobile, edge, cloud, and device capabilities.\n\nArchitect clean, maintainable, and extensible software systems that support rapid experimentation and iteration.\n\nContribute to internal frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that accelerate AI prototyping.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nAgentic AI Application Development:\n\nDesign and implement software components, frameworks, and end-to-end prototypes.\n\nDevelop agent-enabled applications that combine foundation models, tools, APIs, external services, and device capabilities.\n\nEvaluate emerging agent architectures, workflows, and user experiences.\n\nAI Integration & System Development:\n\nWork with AI researchers and system engineers to integrate and evaluate AI models and agentic workflows, including tool integration, orchestration logic, memory systems, runtime integration, and end-to-end data flows.\n\nProvide practical feedback on feasibility, performance bottlenecks, system constraints, and user experience.\n\nSoftware Engineering Excellence:\n\nDrive high-quality software design, architecture, testing, and maintainability.\n\nBuild internal tools and automation to improve engineering productivity and prototyping velocity.\n\nCross-Functional Collaboration\n\nPartner closely with researchers and engineers to deliver impactful prototypes.\n\nCommunicate technical designs, trade-offs, and implementation details effectively.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of software development experience\n\nOR Master’sdegree and 3+ years\nOR PhD and 2+ years\nOR equivalent industry experience in systems or mobile development.\nStrong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, C++, Java, Kotlin, Go, or Rust.\n\nStrong software engineering fundamentals, including architecture design, modularity, testing, debugging, and performance optimization.\n\nExperience designing and building complex software systems with clean, maintainable code.\n\nExperience developing applications or systems from concept to working prototype.\n\nExcellent problem-solving and collaboration skills.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience building agentic AI applications using LLMs, multimodal models, tool calling, workflow orchestration, memory systems, planning, reasoning, or multi-agent architectures.\n\nFamiliarity with agent frameworks such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, MCP, or similar technologies.\n\nExperience evaluating and improving agent reliability, task completion, and user experience.\n\nExperience rapidly prototyping AI-powered applications and bringing research concepts to working demonstrations.\n\nExperience integrating AI-powered features across mobile, edge, cloud, or embedded platforms.\n\nFamiliarity with Snapdragon platforms or on-device AI deployment is a plus.\n\nExperience building internal tools, automation systems, or developer productivity solutions.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.OR\nMaster's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.\nOR\nPhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.\nApplicants: Qualcomm is an equal opportunity employer. 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We will not respond here to requests for updates on applications or resume inquiries).\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.\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. 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