Sr AI Developer Relations Engineer at Qualcomm

Company:

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Job Area:

Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Software Engineering

General Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Developer Relations engineer with background in AI System engineering to deliver a comprehensive developer experience for third party developers. These external developers will be developing diverse AI applications using the Snapdragon AI APIs, optimized libraries, to interface to other subsystem interfaces such as camera, audio, display, graphics, memory, security, and operating system components available on Snapdragon.

As a senior member of the team responsible for the AI application developer experience on Snapdragon compute platform, you will have the opportunity to provide AI application developers with sample applications. These will include clear use of interfaces and templates which will allow developers to plug in their proprietary models to first test their model on Qualcomm hardware (such as Windows on Snapdragon) and then access valuable performance metrics which will further be used to optimize the model. You will also work with internal application/customer engineering teams to address any queries from application developer ecosystem on use of Snapdragon AI APIs and support enhancements to the sample applications as needed. Through this experience, you will be well positioned to drive improvements into the SW stack including SDK, Tools, and documentation. This role will require you to work closely with development leads, software and hardware architects, project engineers, product managers, customer engineers, OEMs, OS partners and application developers.

The ideal candidate has experience in building end to end applications for one or more of Computer Vision, Audio, LVM, LLM use cases using AI/ML tools/workflow on Linux/Windows for CPU, GPU and AI accelerators

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering or related work experience.

OR

PhD in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

• 2+ years of academic or work experience with Programming Language such as C, C++, Java, Python, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Develop plans to engage with external developers focused on at least one of the following application areas: IoT, Automotive, Microsoft device ecosystem.
• Cross-functional collaboration across software, hardware engineering, developer marketing and product management teams.
• Understand trends in ML model design, and workflow through application developer engagements and latest academic research.
• Develop and ensure sample application comprehensiveness for AI on Linux/Windows on Snapdragon to cover the gamut of models used, and use-cases including use of additional snapdragon optimized libraries outside of Snapdragon AI functions.
• Interface with 3rd party application developers and other cross-site and cross-functional teams to arrive at easy-to-use sample application, and documentation that are directly leveraged by 3rd party app developers for Windows on Snapdragon
• Contribute new features and designs to the Qualcomm AI toolkit to enhance the workflow experience of Application Developers

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent understanding of AI frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), GPU programming, and parallel computing. Experience with large language models/foundational models development and deployment a plus
• Good Understanding of complete AI Software stack and familiarity with AI performance tuning techniques on GPU, NPU based systems
• Experience with development of end-to-end AI application on Windows using Windows ML, DirectML
• Experience in full workflow involved in training and deployment of models on servers and porting to client Windows compute platforms involving model inference deployment and performance tuning
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C++
• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical and technical stakeholders.
• Strong leadership abilities to motivate and guide development teams.
• Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving, analytical, and debugging skills
• Demonstrated ability to learn, think and adapt in a fast-changing environment
• Familiarity with software development methodologies, version control systems, and agile project management practices.
• 12+ years’ experience in application development involving High Performance Computing with 5+ years in AI application development on Windows

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Pay range and Other Compensation & Benefits:

$111,300.00 - $166,900.00

The 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. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that Qualcomm has to offer – and you can review more details about our US benefits at this link.

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