Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Adobe
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This role pays less than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $177,250–$246,150 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $176k versus about $212k for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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Qualcomm is a leading American semiconductor and telecommunications company based in San Diego, CA.
Qualcomm currently has 575 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $147,900–$221,900 across 550 roles with salary data.
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The Senior Engineer - Machine Learning joins the Machine Learning Engineering group to design, develop, and optimize machine learning systems for next-generation AI platforms. This role involves building scalable training, evaluation, and deployment workflows while developing reusable ML components and libraries. Key responsibilities include optimizing model inference for latency and throughput using quantization, caching, and batching, as well as integrating LLMs into APIs and microservices. The candidate will utilize Python, C++, Rust, or Go alongside frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. Technical requirements include experience with transformer architectures, RAG pipelines, and distributed computing in GPU environments. The work focuses on solving production-grade AI challenges, including model serving infrastructure, vector databases, and cost-aware system designs for multimodal models and agentic AI workflows.
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