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In this role, the candidate will contribute to the design, development, and delivery of next-generation AI-powered applications, developer experiences, and reusable platform capabilities across the enterprise.\nThis is a fast-paced, execution-driven position that requires strong ownership, the ability to deliver under tight timelines, and the ability to deliver production-quality solutions under evolving requirements.\nThis role requires full-time onsite work in San Diego, CA (5 days per week).\n Minimum 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nBuild and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, including document ingestion, indexing, embeddings, vector search, reranking, retrieval optimization, grounding, and evaluation frameworks.\n\nDevelop and integrate LLM-powered capabilities, agents, and AI services into enterprise applications to improve knowledge discovery, automation, productivity, and business workflows.\n\nDesign, develop, and enhance end-to-end AI-powered enterprise applications, including backend services, APIs, agentic workflows, and modern user experiences.\n\nArchitect, deploy, and operate scalable cloud-native AI solutions on Kubernetes and public cloud platforms, ensuring high availability, security, reliability, and performance at enterprise scale.\n\nDesign and implement APIs, MCP-compatible services, enterprise connectors, and integration layers that expose AI, search, and platform capabilities across applications.\n\nBuild and maintain production-ready CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, observability, monitoring, tracing, and operational tooling for AI applications and platform services.\n\nOptimize system performance across application, retrieval, inference, and data-processing layers, including latency, throughput, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency.\n\nCollaborate with AI/ML, platform, infrastructure, security, and product teams to deliver robust, production-grade AI solutions while establishing engineering best practices, governance, and operational excellence.\n\nMust-Have Qualifications\nStrong programming skills in Python, Java, C#.NET, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular, Node.js, HTML, and CSS\n\nExperience designing and building full-stack applications, including user interfaces, backend services, APIs, data integration layers, and distributed systems.\n\nHands-on experience developing, integrating, or deploying AI-powered applications utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), semantic search, or agentic workflows.\n\nExperience building enterprise search, retrieval, indexing, or knowledge management solutions using modern search technologies, vector databases, embeddings, or related capabilities.\n\nExperience developing and deploying cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, with familiarity in containerized and Kubernetes-based environments.\n\nStrong understanding of API design, microservices architectures, application integration patterns, authentication, authorization, and frontend/backend interaction.\n\nExperience debugging across both traditional systems and AI/LLM-driven behavior\n\nNice-to-Have\nTracing/observability tools for LLM systems\n\nExperience with Elasticsearch / vector search\n\nDocker / Kubernetes exposure\n\nMulti-agent systems and evaluation frameworks\n\nQualcomm 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$117,800.00 - $176,600.00The 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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